When I had taken a cup of tea from her hand I created a diversion with the question, “What did you mean by saying the way she carried on was disgraceful?”
“Why, the way she gets engaged and disengaged. It’s been three times in as many years, and goodness knows how many more experiments—”
“I suppose she’s trying to find the right man.”
“It’s pretty hard on those she takes up and puts down in the process. She’ll get left in the end, you’ll see if she doesn’t.”
“Isn’t it better to get left than to marry the wrong man?”
“The very day I took Jack to see her she’d broken off her engagement to Jim Hunter. I didn’t know it at the time. It was two or three days later before it came out. If I had known it and told Jack—”
“Well, what then?”
“Oh, I don’t say anything. They were awfully taken with each other. But I’m glad he was saved. If he hadn’t gone straight back to Montreal he might now be in the place of poor Stephen Cantyre.”
“I see a good deal of Cantyre.”