“I didn’t expect to find you up,” said Arthur.
“We haven’t been abed,” said Hetzel.
“I suppose nothing new has happened? You haven’t heard from her again?”
“No.”
They remained silent for some time.
Hetzel began, “After you left in that abrupt way, Mrs. Hart, who had borne up wonderfully, quite went to pieces. She has been in a half hysterical condition all night. I persuaded her to lie down about an hour ago, and now she’s asleep.”
Arthur vouchsafed no comment.
“We have had a lot of reporters pestering us, too,” Hetzel went on. “Of course I refused to see them, one and all.”
At this Arthur started.
“Then I suppose the whole thing is in the papers, curse them!” he cried.