“He was a perfect gentleman,” she declared; “and gentlemen always set a good example.”
That did not seem to ruffle Swift in the least. Indeed, her stinging words ran off him as water runs from a duck’s back.
“Ha! ha!” he laughed. “It’s plain you were fooled by the fellow, just the same as many others who did not see much of him.”
That made her long to express herself still more plainly, but Inza was a lady above everything else, and she could hold herself in restraint under certain conditions, for all of her passionate nature.
“I hardly think I was fooled; but I am certain you were deceived, or that you are inclined to maliciously misjudge him. I do hope it is not the latter case.”
“Thanks. I wouldn’t put myself to the trouble to misjudge him, for I do not regard the fellow as worth judging at all.”
That was hard to bear! Had Inza been a man she might have placed her hand on Roy Swift’s collar just then.
“I am sure he made a good record at the academy!”
“But did not graduate.”
“His guardian died.”