Quin was not there, and a moment later Dick was called away to speak to some one at the telephone. Alymer looked up at Hal suddenly, with a very direct gaze.
“Lorraine told me Sir Edwin gave you the watch the other day. I don’t know how you can keep it, much less wear it. You ought to throw it into the Thames.”
Hal flushed up angrily.
“Of course I’m interested in your opinion on the matter,” she said, “but I had not thought of asking for it.”
Hermon flushed too, but he stood his ground.
“It would be the opinion of most men.”
“‘Most men’ don’t appeal to me in the least. I am quite satisfied with my own opinion in this matter.”
“Still, I wish you wouldn’t wear it,” he urged, a little boyishly. “The man has shown himself a cad. He was in a tight corner, and he let a woman buy him out.”
“And don’t most men take help from a woman at some time or other?”
He winced, but answered sturdily: