"Miss Wayne is quite all right, ma'am." He accented the name, watching Mary as he spoke.
"Thank you very much, Peter," she said.
"Once she got out into the air, ma'am——"
Bill interrupted him with a peremptory gesture. Pete winked again and backed out.
Ten minutes later Mary Wayne was more concerned about the probability that her nose was red than she was about her status as Bill Marshall's secretary. Bill was smoking a cigarette and looking thoughtful. He did not know whether it would have been all right to cuddle her or not. The inopportuneness of Pete Stearns had left the question open.
"I think I'll go to bed," said Mary.
Bill went to the door and paused with his hand on the knob.
"That resignation doesn't go, you know," he said.