“Not with Beth and Ptolemy in calling distance,” I told him.
“But they will be off together,” he 102 replied, “and your wife will be alone with that enfant terrible. I fancy, too, that your sister isn’t exactly a companion for your wife.”
“Well, that shows how little you know her. She and Silvia are great friends.”
“Oh, yes, of course they are friendly, but I mean their tastes are so different, and they are so unlike. Your sister doesn’t care for domesticity.”
“Sure she does. You have turned the wrong searchlight on Beth. If you knew her, you’d like her.”
“I do like her,” he declared. “It’s too bad she––”
He stopped abruptly and quickly changed the conversation. In spite of my efforts to renew the controversy about Beth, he refused to return to the subject.
