“So many people do,” said Lady Poynting Mallow.
She evidently regarded that branch of the subject as dismissed.
They pursued their way in silence.
“What I wanted to ask you, Mr. Milvain——”
“Melville.”
“Mr. Melville, is just precisely where you come into this business?”
“I’m a friend of Miss Glendower.”
“Who wants him back.”
“Frankly—yes.”
“Isn’t she devoted to him?”