"I shall be—grateful for the attention," said Lynn, dully: then she laughed.
They walked in silence for a block or two.
"Have you anything to say to me, Lynn?" said Amherst at last.
"I—nothing!"
"You prefer to say nothing?"
Lynn was silent for a moment; then she spoke very distinctly.
"On the night that you asked me to marry you, I said all that I was at liberty to say."
"Ricossia is rather exacting, isn't he?"
The sneer escaped Gerald, wrung from him by his pain. Lynn started slightly but made no answer.
"I should ask your pardon," Amherst went on, presently. "I had no right to say that. I do not even know that it is Ricossia on whom you paid this late call. Possibly you have other friends in the Chatham."