“Do you know why she told me? She had the best of reasons. The first time she laid eyes on me she saw that we were both in the same box.”
“Lydia!”
“So it was natural, of course, that she should turn to me in a difficulty.”
“What difficulty?”
“It seems she has reason to think that Lord Trevenna’s people are trying to get him away from her before she gets her divorce—”
“Well?”
“And she fancied he had been consulting with you last night as to—as to the best way of escaping from her.”
Gannett stood up with an angry forehead.
“Well—what concern of yours was all this dirty business? Why should she go to you?”
“Don’t you see? It’s so simple. I was to wheedle his secret out of you.”