"Hilmer showed me what to do," she retorted, calmly.
"Then he's been over here?"
"Yes … all morning."
He narrowed his eyes. She went on with her typewriting.
"Well, I'll be damned!" escaped him.
His wife replied with a tripping laugh.
At that moment Brauer came in. "I hear you've got the Hilmer line," he broke out, excitedly. "They say Kendrick is wild… How much did you have to split?"
"Nothing," Starratt said, coldly.
"Nothing?" Brauer's gaze swept from Starratt to Helen and back again.
"How did you land it, then?"
Helen stood up, thrusting a pencil into her hair.