“Really,” she exclaimed, “I protest against this. What possible connection can our private affairs have with your business?”
“It is your own fault, Miss Duke. You are not telling me the whole truth, and I am therefore suspicious. I want to find out what you are keeping back, and I may tell you that I am going to do so. What did you want to see Mr. Harrington about so urgently?”
The girl seemed terribly distressed.
“If you will have it, it was about the postponement of the wedding,” she said in a low voice. “You understand, we had been discussing the matter on the night before, when no conclusion had been come to. But on sleeping on it I had made up my mind in favour of the postponement, and I wanted to tell Mr. Harrington at once.”
“But why was it so urgent? Could you not have waited until later in the day?”
“I felt I couldn’t wait. It was so important to us both.”
“And you refuse to give the reason of the postponement?”
“I do. You have no right to ask it.”
“You did meet Mr. Harrington that morning?”
“Yes.”