“Kit!” He uttered a blazing oath under his breath. “So my suspicions are confirmed about that reptile! By God, if you and my lady are a pair and in collusion, after all!”
“Fiddle-de-dee!” she said, putting out the tip of her tongue at him. “What do you mean by collusion? That I’m abetting her in carrying on with my own particular friend? Not likely!”
He stamped in impotent exasperation.
“Why do you tell me, then? But I see what it is. She has robbed you of this creature, and you want to be revenged on her for it. And by God you shall! Tell me, when was this?”
“This very afternoon.”
“And how long was he with her?”
“Who?”
“O, you know!”
“I thought you might mean the other.”
“The other? There was another, then?” He positively squeaked in his fury. “Who was it? Curse it, I will know!”