"Safe in fold to-night, I hope," he answered, as a gust of wind blew the rain in vicious volleys against the panes.
"Tell me," she said presently. "How did Lord Kneedrock look the day you saw him at Bath?"
"Vexed," he answered. "Beastly angry, in fact."
"I'm sure he did. It was unkind of me not to see him, and to make an exception of you."
"That's altogether a matter of viewpoint. I think it was most kind."
"Of course you do. Men are all selfish animals."
"I think that is unkind," he said reprovingly. "I'm not selfish where your happiness is concerned. I'd go to the ends of the earth to serve you, Nina."
"With another man left behind?"
"Yes. Even with another man left behind."
"That's what Kneedrock did," she told him. "And—and I can never forget it."