"To-morrow," said Capper.
She removed her hands with a gesture that was piteous, she said nothing whatever.
Capper turned aside. "Maybe you'll take up housekeeping," he said practically. "If I dare to venture upon the suggestion, you would make a charming hostess."
She was silent still.
He glanced at her. "Say, Mrs. Bolton," he said, "I guess you'll think me several kinds of a nuisance; but your husband has offered me his hospitality for to-night. And I,--well, I have accepted it provisionally, that is, on the condition that he can supply me with a hostess."
She looked at him in blank dismay. "But I sleep here!" she said. "I--I must be always at hand in case Bunny should want me."
"Isn't the nurse in attendance?" asked Capper, with a touch of sharpness.
"Oh, of course," she answered. "But--but----"
"And how often in the night does she generally call you?"
Maud was silent.