"But generous. Sometime God will give you a chance."
"You mean, sometime I will give God a chance."
"No, Robert, what I say I mean--sometime, God will give you a chance."
Charles Kimberly's impatient voice was heard from the pergola.
"Robert! We've been waiting thirty minutes," he stormed.
"I am just coming."
CHAPTER IX
That afternoon MacBirney played golf with Charles Kimberly. Toward five o'clock, Alice in one of the De Castro cars drove around to The Hickories after him. When he came in, she was sitting on the porch with a group of women, among them Fritzie Venable and Lottie Nelson.
"I must be very displeasing to Mrs. Nelson," Alice said to her husband as they drove away. "It upsets me completely to meet that woman."
"Why, what's the matter with her?" asked MacBirney, in a tone which professing friendly surprise really implied that the grievance might after all be one of imagination.