She named a name.
"I know him," said Jack. "Wait for me upstairs, and I'll see if I can't make an exchange. I want to talk to you."
Linda's curiosity was aroused, and she went back upstairs with Lord Spurling. In five minutes Jack had rejoined her, and the two of them went out on the balcony again, in the same nook Linda had shared with the Englishman.
"Well, what is it?" she asked.
"Linda," he said, "we've done nothing but quarrel since I came. Let's cry quits!"
"It hasn't been my fault," she said, all ready for another.
"Never mind whose fault," he said. "Let's cut it out!"
"What's come over you?" she asked curiously.
"Look here," he said, "up North I promised that I'd come and claim you as soon as I cleared myself. Well, I came, and I've been here long enough to show us both that it's no go. We're not suited to each other. We only get on each other's nerves. Give me my word back again, Linda. Let's shake hands on it, and say good-bye!"
Linda started, and looked at him with big eyes. "Jack!" she murmured. "You'd desert me? You can't mean it? What would I do?"