"Then you were actually married, over a month ago?"
"I have the certificate. Isn't that sufficient?" she replied evasively.
"Well—I suppose it is—for this sort of an arrangement," he agreed. "Of course some man's name must appear in the document. I should be obliged, I presume, to adopt his name as part of the arrangement?"
"Certainly," she said. "I told you I came into your office because your name is Jerold."
"Exactly," he mused. "The name I'd assume is Jerold Fairfax?"
She nodded, watching him keenly.
"It's a good enough name," said Garrison.
He paced up and down the floor in silence a number of times. Mrs.
Fairfax watched him in apparent calm.
"This is a great temptation," he admitted. "I should like to earn the fee you have mentioned, Miss Booth—Mrs. Fairfax, but——"
He halted.