“You can’t come in here! Have you gone crazy?”
“Why not? you’re alone, aren’t you? I’ve been lonely for you, baby.”
“You must go at once!”
“That’s a nice way to talk to me,” he said, smiling at her, turning on a charm that had never failed him as yet. “Don’t be that way. It’s all right. No one saw me come in.”
“It isn’t all right.”
He side-stepped her and walked into the sitting-room, switching on the lights.
“Gee! This is nice. How do you like being left all alone? Weren’t you lonesome for me?”
Janey followed him in. She was flustered and angry.
“If Paul came back…”
“Why should he?” Seigel dropped into an armchair and smiled up at her. “Relax. He’s gone away, hasn’t he?”