“To go up to her? Now?”
“That’s the message she sent. She appears to rely on you to do something.” She added with a smile: “Whatever it is, let’s have it over!”
Darrow, through his rising sense of apprehension, wondered why, instead of merely going for a walk, he had not jumped into the first train and got out of the way till Owen’s affairs were finally settled.
“But what in the name of goodness can I do?” he protested, following Anna back into the hall.
“I don’t know. But Owen seems so to rely on you, too——”
“Owen! Is he to be there?”
“No. But you know I told him he could count on you.”
“But I’ve said to your mother-in-law all I could.”
“Well, then you can only repeat it.”
This did not seem to Darrow to simplify his case as much as she appeared to think; and once more he had a movement of recoil. “There’s no possible reason for my being mixed up in this affair!”