“If I sought one I sought the other,” he answered. “They are not long to be caught apart.”
“Thank you for the reminder,” she answered, and he bit his lip with vexation. “Well, he hath taken her to attend on her Majesty, I presume, since that is where his duties detain him. You had better seek them there.”
A thrill shot through his veins in the sudden thought that she was jealous.
“Not I,” he said. “I know where I am well off, if Phil does not.”
A faintest increase of colour flushed her cheek, but she worked on steadily.
“Still,” she said, “in spite of their inseparability, as you consider it, I do not doubt but that she is in the house at this moment. Shall I send her a message that you are here?”
“What are you implying, if you please, cousin?” he said.
“Why,” she answered quietly, “you knew very well that my lord was elsewhere, and concluded my absence from his. Who other than Mrs. Davis, then, could have been the object of this clandestine visit?”
He heard; he smiled to himself; he drew his chair a little closer.
“Kate,” he said, “are you in very truth jealous?”