“It can’t be,” said Melville with arid emphasis.
“She cares for him?”
“She’s come to fetch him.”
“If she wants him badly he might make terms. In these affairs it’s always one or other has to do the buying. She’d have to marry—anyhow.”
My cousin regarded her impenetrably satisfied face.
“He could have a yacht and a diving bell,” she suggested; “if she wanted him to visit her people.”
“They are pagan demigods, I believe, and live in some mythological way in the Mediterranean.”
“Dear Harry’s a pagan himself—so that doesn’t matter, and as for being mythological—all good families are. He could even wear a diving dress if one could be found to suit him.”
“I don’t think that anything of the sort is possible for a moment.”
“Simply because you’ve never been a woman in love,” said Lady Poynting Mallow with an air of vast experience.