“Their affair. I thought it was past my meddling.”
“Do you mean to say that you thought Nancy was going to marry Collier Pratt—Nancy?”
“Why, yes, if I hadn’t I—I wouldn’t have acted up the way I did in your rooms that night.”
But Dick neither heard nor understood her.
“Do you mean to say that you think Collier Pratt has been making love to her?”
“I think so.”
“But the damned scoundrel is married.”
“Oh!” Betty cried. “Oh!—I didn’t know that.”
“I’ve known it—I’ve always known it,” Dick said. “I never dreamed that Nancy had any special interest in him.”
“Well, she had. She’s going through everything, Dick, even Sheila—you know how she loved Sheila?”