“Yes, I think I did.”
“Why did you do that?”
“Well, Hodge was a trifle abrupt, and he took me by surprise.”
“Then you acknowledge——”
“That—no more.”
“But it was an insult.”
“Nonsense! It was nothing of the sort.”
Vance was pale, and he began to glare at her, anger and jealousy in his eyes.
“I hope, Miss Stanley,” he began, stiffly, “that you are not going to say that you liked it? If you——”
“That is exactly what I am going to say,” laughed the actress, to the surprise of all and the fury of Vance. “I’d just been taunting him—having sport with him, you know. He had his revenge by seizing me and kissing me.”