He had failed to subdue the disobedient wife, and he was asking down his sister!
CHAPTER XXV
THE BROKEN TRIANGLE
Geoffrey Alison, bursting with anxiety for Helena's decision, found her next morning in exultant readiness.
"I accept," she cried excitedly, almost before he had got inside the door. "I accept Blatchley's offer. The book is growing splendidly. I've done two chapters and I see it all."
He thought he had never seen her in such good form, and he wondered. She had been so cold about it yesterday. He did not, of course, know about the meals between....
She could not, however, help telling him a little of it.
"Oh," she cried, "you don't know how glorious it'll be, having some work to do again; I've missed Virginia, I mean Zoë, horribly! It seems so endless, the day, now that Hubert's cross."
"Is he still sick?" the other asked. He only knew till now what people said. He was dying to hear, but she was so funny.