"He didn't state his plans. I imagine he was rattled when I fired him out. It had probably dawned on him he'd been loafing about my office most part of the afternoon."
"You knew he was a friend of Miss Jordan's," Mrs. Jefferson remarked.
"I knew Jacinta Austin was pretty smart, but it begins to look as if she was smarter than I thought."
Mrs. Jefferson smiled. "Oh, well, you have got a good clerk and Kit has got a post he likes."
"But what about Olivia?"
"I don't think you need be disturbed about Olivia," said Mrs. Jefferson, dryly. "Anyhow, you mustn't meddle. Your touch is not light."
"That is so," Jefferson agreed. "Jacinta's touch is surely light; she can pull three or four wires at once, without your knowing how she's occupied. For all that, I've a notion she'll some time snarl the wires in a nasty tangle. Can't you give her a hint she's got to leave my clerk and Kit alone?"
"I doubt. The thing is puzzling. You see, Betty refused Kit," Mrs. Jefferson remarked in a thoughtful voice. "However, I think two of the leading actors in the comedy know what they want. The others do not."
"It rather looks as if three didn't know."
"I think my calculation's accurate. However, I see no useful part for us. Ours is to look on and smile when the play's amusing."