"I fear not."
"Did you not understand that Judge Saltzer and he are both to be with our party now?"
"But I am to leave it to-night."
She made no comment. "You do not understand why I joined it," he continued, "after my——"
"I understand, at least, how distasteful the association must have been."
He had looked up, and without flinching, he took the blow into his slow, heavy eyes, but in a manner as mild as Glover's, defiance could hardly be said to have place at any time.
"I have given you too good ground to visit your impatience on me," he said, "and I confess I've stood the ordeal badly. Your contempt has cut me to the quick. But don't, I beg, add to my humiliation by such a reproach. I'm blundering, but not wholly reprobate."
Her father appeared at the door. Glover's eyes were fastened on the blueprint.
Gertrude let her magazine lie in her lap. She could not at all understand the plans the two men were discussing, but her father spoke so confidently about taking up Glover's suggestions in detail during the two weeks that they should have together, and Glover said so little, that she intervened presently with a little remark. "Papa; are you not forgetting that Mr. Glover says he cannot be with us on the Park trip."
"I am not forgetting it because Mr. Glover hasn't said so."