—“into this affair.”
“Oh.”
“I—I suppose I ought to have known better than to ask—you.”
“Oh,” I said, for the third time, and I meant to stop there. But somehow I couldn’t help going on rather acidly, “And which of your other employees do you wish you had asked instead? Miss Robinson?”
(Who would have been provided with material for impersonations of the family Waters for the rest of her life.)
—“Or Miss Holt?”
(She, I know, would have screamed aloud when he inflicted that extraordinary kiss upon her!)
“Miss Smith, of course, has her affections otherwise engaged——”
“Ah? And so that would have been a barrier, would it? Even to this kind of an affair?” retorted the Governor, very quickly and looking hard at me.