She smiled scornfully.

“Perhaps! You know he wouldn’t, Bobbie! I can’t think of his doing a thing like that. Why, Gordon is the very antithesis of vulgarity! Could you imagine him engaged in a clandestine friendship with a woman like Aunt Lizzie? It is absurd. Can you imagine him walking into this house with a strange female and pretending that he doesn’t know her when he is detected? I should imagine not!”

Still Bobbie had a duty to perform.

“I think you’re mad to trust any man absolutely,” he said firmly. “No man is worthy of that confidence.”

She laughed.

“You’re a cynical bachelor.”

A voice came from the background. An indignant and an emphatic voice.

“That is just what I say,” said Gordon. “I can’t imagine a more immoral point of view, striking at the very roots—er—um——”

He almost cringed under Diana’s gaze.

“How dare you interrupt?” she demanded.