Tietjens said:
"She hasn't!"
Sylvia checked suddenly in her next questions, and Tietjens, who in these discussions never manœuvred for position, said:
"She has been Mrs. Macmaster over six months."
Sylvia said:
"She married him then the day after her husband's death."
She drew a long breath and added:
"I don't care. . . . She has been coming here every Friday for three years. . . . I tell you I shall expose her unless that little beast pays you to-morrow the money he owes you. . . . God knows you need it!" She said then hurriedly, for she didn't know how Tietjens might take that proposition:
"Mrs. Wannop rang up this morning to know who was . . . oh! . . . the evil genius of the Congress of Vienna. Who, by the by, is Mrs. Wannop's secretary? She wants to see you this afternoon. About war babies!"
Tietjens said: