"Oh, you really are——!" Winnie laughed irritably.
"And you ran away from him. What happens if Master Godfrey runs away from you?"
Winnie glanced at him sharply. Rather odd that he should put that question! Was there any suspicion among her friends, any at Shaylor's Patch?
"Because," Dennehy continued, "you wouldn't go on from man to man, being married to each of 'em for life temporarily, would you?"
Winnie laughed, if reluctantly. But there is hardly anything that a ready disputant cannot turn to ridicule.
"How you try to pin people down!" she complained. "You and your principles! I know what I should like to see happen, Mr. Dennehy."
"Ah, now—'Dick'—as a mere matter of fairness, Winnie!"
"Well, Dick, what I should just love to see is you in love with somebody who was married, or had been divorced, or something of that sort, and see how you'd like your principles yourself." She looked mischievous and very pretty.
Dennehy shook his head. "We're all miserable sinners. But I don't believe I'd do it."
"What, fall in love, or give way to it?"