"Is he well?"
Hadley made no answer, but bending forward, looked more closely at his friend's wife. He took quick note of her tired-looking eyes, the pallor of her face. Slowly he said:
"And you? Are you well? I think that is more important."
She smiled wearily as she answered:
"Oh, I'm a little tired, that's all. This work is very confining. In fact, I've quite gotten out of the way of it."
He looked at her intently for a moment in silence. Then he said:
"I had no idea where you had gone. None of his friends knew. Some think you are abroad. Bob has let that impression get about. Even I, his most intimate friend, did not know all the particulars! I guessed the truth. Yet Bob knew where you were."
Virginia, startled, looked up quickly:
"He knows?" she exclaimed.
Hadley nodded.