Corinna bit her lip. Clearly, Evan offered her a new set of problems in the management of men. Anway sought to enter again, but she stopped him.
"Please go, Leonard," she murmured. "This is too absurd!"
The whispered colloquy was perfectly audible to Evan.
Anway said: "But I don't like to leave you alone with——"
She laughed slightly. "Nonsense! I can take care of myself!"
"But, Corinna, if I go he'll think I——"
"I will put him straight as to that."
"Corinna," this low and thick, "what is this man to you?"
"No more than you—or any of my friends."
"But, Corinna——"