“You must be very stupid.”
“That’s it.”
“I am sure I could get him to confide in me.”
“You? Why, you’d win the confidence of a Memnon.”
“Don’t be silly. But tell me, Percy—do you think, now, that Malcolm Stratton has been very wicked? I mean, do you think he has married anyone else?”
“No,” said Guest flatly, “I feel sure he hasn’t.”
“Then we will have the matter cleared up.”
“How?”
“Myra shall go and see him, and ask him why he has treated her so badly.”
“But it will be such bad form.”