“Why?”
“Oh, just because—” and then her voice broke suddenly.
“I suppose Sir Edwin was in love with you?”
She did not reply.
“And he was obliged to marry the other woman for the money.”
He was thoughtful for some moments, and then added:
“All the same, when a man like that goes so far as to love a woman, which must be a pretty novel experience for him, he doesn’t let her go lightly. He won’t let you go lightly, Hal.”
“I shall not see him again.”
“Has it come to that already?”
“It had to. There was no other course.”