“Then why give up the chance?”
“I am doing nothing here.”
“But I’m satisfied. I didn’t expect a miracle!”
“The child is too young,” said Taswell. “I cannot get hold of him. The two hours a day is a trial to us both.”
“Then why did you tell my husband just now that . . .”
“Oh, he was simply baiting me,” said Taswell.
Elaine bit her lip.
Presently she said: “Is it because you dislike Sturges?”
“No,” he said promptly. “I like him!” The implication of this speech might have been had in the involuntarily warm glance which accompanied it, but which Elaine chose not to see.
“I mention that simply because everybody seems to dislike him,” she said proudly.