I took the dress out of her hand to carry it to the maid in the next room.
"Leave him alone—how?"
She flushed to a lovely pink.
"Oh, you know what I mean. I don't have to explain."
"You mean that in my position in the household it will be for me to—to keep out of his way?"
"It's you who put it like that, dear Miss Adare—"
"But it's the way you want me to put it?"
"Well, if I admit that it is?"
"Then I don't think I care for the place."
"What?"