"What of dinner, Marian?" he asked his wife airily.
"I’ll see," she said, and went briskly out of the room.
Angelica rang the bell, and Courtland came to admit her.
"Hello!" he said. "What do you want?"
She repressed the too ready answer that was at the tip of her tongue, and said, with dignity:
"Mrs. Russell expects me."
"Well, she’s in the kitchen," said Courtland, in conversational tone. "She helps Annie now while——”
"All right!" said Angelica. "I’ll go down."
She had reached the dark passage at the foot of the kitchen stairs when a hand on her shoulder arrested her.
"Angelica!" said Vincent’s voice. "What are you doing here? Go away! I’ll send you money—I swear I will! Only go away! You won’t get anything out of me by hounding me this way."