She seized the opportunity to make the first incision toward getting in her point. "That she threw herself into the pond? Did he say that Jim Breen dived after her and brought her up?"
He answered indifferently. "He said some one did. He didn't say who."
"It was Jim. He saved her." As the statement evoked no response, she continued, "Claude, what did you come home for?"
Again he withdrew his cigar from his mouth, looking at her obliquely. "To marry her."
She allowed some time to elapse before saying, "Claude, I don't think you will."
"Oh yes, I shall."
"What makes you so sure?"
"Because I am."
"I'm not. Or, rather, if I am sure—it's the other way."
He sprang up, seizing her by the arm over which there was nothing but a gauze scarf by way of covering. "Lois, for God's sake! What do you mean? You know something. Tell me. She hasn't gone away with Thor, has she?"