“Doubtless—and I fear I have hardly to discover his agent.”
“And Mr. Jermyn?” said Cosmo, with a look half shy, half fearful, as if after all some bolt must be about to fall.
“I can tell you very little about him. I have scarcely seen him since he brought me the money.”
“Then he didn’t.... ?”
“Well, what didn’t he?”
“I have no right to ask.”
“Ask me anything .”
“Didn’t he ask you to marry him?”
Joan laughed.
“I had begun to be afraid he had something of the kind in his head, when all at once I saw no more of him.”