"Oh no, no," protested the Marquis, looking shocked; "but you have behaved so well as Jim's wife----"
"That is the third time you have said so, and I am by no means stupid. It seems to me," she looked straight at him, "that you believe M. Demetrius will ask me to marry him."
"Yes, I do think so."
"Will it ease your mind if I say that I have no intention of accepting any impertinent proposal he may make?"
"It will and it does," said Frith, bluntly. "I should not like to see you throw yourself away on that man. Should you marry again----"
"It will be entirely my own affair."
"Of course, of course. All the same----"
"Quite so! Good-day, Lord Frith."
He smiled grimly, seeing that she would not permit him to finish a single sentence. "Am I to take your use of my title as an intimation that we are to be strangers?"
"To the extent of supervision, yes."