“Well, he won’t. It’s all right. But I must just keep on as long as he may want me.”
“Want you to sit with him in the Park?”
“He may want me for that—but I shan’t. I rather liked it, but once, under the circumstances, is enough. I can do better for him in another manner.”
“And what manner, pray?”
“Well, elsewhere.”
“Elsewhere?—I say!”
This was an ejaculation used also by Captain Everard, but oh with what a different sound! “You needn’t ‘say’—there’s nothing to be said. And yet you ought perhaps to know.”
“Certainly I ought. But what—up to now?”
“Why exactly what I told him. That I’d do anything for him.”
“What do you mean by ‘anything’?”