Meanwhile that gentleman himself was telling Agatha Glyn a very humorous story. Agatha did not laugh. Suddenly she interrupted him.
“Why don’t you ask me more about it?”
“I thought you’d tell me if you wanted me to know,” he answered.
“You are the most insufferable man. Don’t you care in the least what I do or where I go?”
“Got perfect confidence in you,” said Calder politely.
“I don’t deserve it.”
“Oh, I daresay not; but it’s so much more comfortable for me.”
“I disappeared—simply disappeared—for a fortnight; and you’ve never asked where I went, or what I did, or—or anything.”
“Haven’t I? Where did you go?”
“I can’t tell you.”