"Interfere with a fiddlestick!" cried Algernon in the quick, testy tone that was the nearest approach to loss of temper Minnie had ever seen in him. Then he added after an instant, with a short laugh, "I don't know why I'm supposed not to include dinner in my 'arrangements' to-day of all days in the year!"
And then the husband and wife went away together, and entered the fly that awaited them before Dr. Bodkin's door.
"How did you know where to find me?" asked Algernon suddenly, after a silent drive of some ten minutes.
"Oh, I knew you had a rendezvous."
"I had no 'rendezvous.' You could not know it!"
"Couldn't I? I tell you I saw that creature's letter. 'Dear Algernon!' What right has she to write to you like that?"
And Castalia burst into angry tears.
Algernon turned upon her eagerly.
"Saw her letter? Where? How?"
"I——they told me——it was at the office."