A shadow crossed his face.

“And you don’t care for anything that doesn’t get you something?”

“Absolutely not.”

“That doesn’t sound like you,” he said after a silence.

“I’m not ‘me’ any longer,” she responded. “I made myself over to suit my environment. I get along better.”

“What has changed you so much, Kate—what in particular?”

She hesitated a moment, then answered coldly:

“Nothing in particular—everything.”

“You mean you don’t want to tell me?”

“What’s the use?” indifferently.