“For not knowing what he wants!”
“He wants Phyllis. That’s simple enough.”
“No, he doesn’t. It would be simple enough if he did. He could have her in a moment. She’s crazy about him. She wants nothing else than to be really his sweetheart.”
“Then why isn’t she?”
“Because he won’t let her!”
“What nonsense, Rose-Ann!”
“It’s perfectly true. I was going to tell you; while you and Clive were over in the corner tonight talking about that novel of his, she was explaining to me what she was angry at him about. She had proposed to him that they rent an apartment together in Chicago this fall.”
“And he refused?” Felix asked incredulously.
“Yes ... unless she would marry him first. And she wouldn’t.”
“But why not?” he asked.