Was this a threat? She glanced at him keenly as she quoted:
“‘Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love.’ May I trust you?”
“Try me.”
“No, I might put you to a test that would be difficult.”
“Try me.”
“Very well, I will. Go back to London in the morning.”
He looked at her and laughed.
“Why?”
“It will be easier for you to be patient there than here——”