“Are you coming to offer to ride with me?” she said. “Because, if you are——”
“Yes?” he asked.
She tossed her head suddenly, with a little shrug.
“O! no matter. What the world can see the world will not suspect. Come, if you wish it.”
“Meaning by the world, I suppose, your husband. Then you have thought better of my suggestion?”
“What suggestion?”
“That you should use me to stimulate his jealousy.”
“I have thought of you as my kinsman and his friend.”
“Is that a reproof, Kate Chesterfield?”
She ruffled a box border with her little pointed toe, looking down the while.