He folded his arms resignedly.
"You don't really mean to act against my wishes, Monte?"
"If that's the only way of getting rid of him," he answered coolly.
"But don't you see—don't you understand that you will only make a scandal of it?" she said.
"What do you mean?"
"If he makes a scene it will be in the papers, and then—oh, well, they will ask by what right—"
"I'd answer I was simply ridding you of a crazy man."
"They would smile. Oh, I know them! Here in Paris they won't believe that a woman who is n't married—"
She stopped abruptly.
Monte's brows came together.