“Skit, I tell you, skit!” she insisted. And they continued to bicker in undertones while Anita summed up the situation.
“No, my theory is this—Madala Grey met some man——”
“Carey?” asked Mr. Flood, dividing his allegiance.
“No, Carey comes later. There was—an episode——”
“Episodes?” he amended.
“Possibly. But an episode anyhow, that I place myself at the end of the Ploughed Fields period. It may have been later, it may have been the following summer while she was working at The Resting-place. I’m open to conviction there. But an episode there must have been. In The Resting-place she wrote it down as it ought to have happened.”
“Why ought?”
“Well, obviously it didn’t happen or she wouldn’t have become Mrs. Carey.”
“The gentleman loved and rode away, you mean?”
“Something of the sort. Something went wrong.”