“I do feel ill! You and the marquis make me ill between you!”
“Oh, the marquis!” Susannah glanced at the knockers and smiled. “Yes, I remember. You introduced the marquis to me. Didn’t you?”
“Yes,” he snapped. “That’s why I’m here now.”
She laughed.
“What funny creatures men are! They never think of things beforehand. And they said you were clever.”
“I never told you so,” he retorted rather dully. “You’d better wait till you get things from headquarters.”
“So had you,” she rapped out. “Who told you, I was making a fool of myself?”
“Nobody! Nobody needed to! What under the sun do you mean by filling your house with his truck?”
“What business is it of yours?” demanded Susannah hotly. “You don’t care anything about us!”
“What if I don’t? I care about seeing my country made a scandal.”