"You have no right to suggest such a thing!"
"But you said he was rich. Naturally he belongs to the rich man's party."
"He's honest and straightforward."
"Then why haven't you told him?"
"I wished to spare him."
"I'm sorry, but he must be told."
Her eyebrows went up. "Must? I don't like your tone. Why must he?"
"I should think you'd see yourself. You and I can't be engaged on these secret matters and go around together without his being told. I must insist on his being told for my own sake."
It need hardly be said that in taking this lofty moral position Greg was not wholly sincere. As a matter of fact he suspected that the Castilian youth would cut a very poor figure in a matter of this kind, and he had a not unnatural desire to show him up.
"Very well, I'll tell him," she said crossly.