“Of course.”
“Then she lied; and if she lied in one thing, the truth of all is to question.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that, unless you can conceive my cousin as the most double-faced, artful little villain in the world, Mrs. Davis was lying to you in pretending that Kate could be a party to this employment of the creature Kit.”
“Why?”
“Because she knows so little about Kit, that ’twas only the other day she was charging Kit to you as some probable light of your fancy before you married her. She thought Kit a woman.”
“Well, she knows better now.”
“But, don’t you see——?”
“I see nothing and know nothing but that my lady has granted the Duke a secret interview, and that I’ll call them both to account for it.”
“Now, Phil, be reasonable. Even if that’s the case—and I question it—there can be harmless interviews.”