Endearingly the ingénue smiled. “Something I ought not to hear, I suppose.” In speaking she made for the door. “The amount of things I ought not to hear and do hear is simply amazing.”
As the portières fell on her gracile back, Violet, with a gesture which, for so warlike a lady, resembled defeat, reseating herself, exclaimed:
“Frankly, she is impossible.”
At once though, buckling anew for the fray, she aimed at Leilah and fired.
“So are you.”
Leilah, who had been considering the Paramitas, started at the attack which instantly was followed up by another.
“Do you know anything about the code here, the law code, I mean. Do you?”
Leilah, a bit bewildered, shook her head. “No, that is, very little.”
Violet’s eyes fairly snapped. “I congratulate you. A little is sometimes a great deal. I also know a little and that little is, well, immense, so enormous even that because of it I am in a position to tell you that if you go with Verplank, Barouffski can, if he catches you, have you jailed.”
Gravely, with curious calm, Leilah looked at her.