“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?”