"Oh, I see. And you've some feeling about it."
"Well, yes," admitted Cecil, "I'm afraid I have."
"I suppose you'd like to take my place?"
"No, it isn't that either. Yon don't seem to see the point. Miss Arminster wants to marry you."
"Well, isn't that a question between Miss Arminster and myself?"
"Naturally. But then she's married pretty frequently, hasn't she? Of course, if all her husbands are dead—"
"Oh, no," said Spotts. "I don't think she's ever lost a husband."
"But you surely can't contemplate—" began Cecil.
"Well, you see," contended the actor, "this is the first time she's ever asked me to marry her, and one can't be so ungallant as to refuse a lady."
"And you'll really add yourself to her list?"