The Professor sat bolt upright:
“What do you mean, Linda?”
“I won’t insist on the advantages if it shocks you, Phil. René understands me.”
“Oh, yes,” said René, “Linda means she can lose her head without any danger of getting married.”
The Professor exploded:
“I never heard of anything so—so abominable.”
“But I did mean that,” said Linda. “Women do lose their heads, you know, even when they are married. Ask Freda. Don’t look so hurt. She and I were talking it over yesterday, and we agreed that the law was so horrid that all I could do was to disregard it. And if René is willing that is what I propose doing. You shall represent the world at large. You do represent its opinion. You know——”
“I do not.”
Linda passed over the interruption: