"Come, my dear," he said to his wife, "the persecutions have commenced."
He led the way from the room to another apartment, his wife obediently following at his heels. The door they left ajar.
CHAPTER IV
UNSPOKEN ANTAGONISM
Garrison crossed the room with an active stride and closed the door firmly.
Dorothy was pale when he turned. She, too, was standing.
"You can see that I've got to be posted a little," he said quietly.
"To err has not ceased to be human."
"You have made no mistakes," said Dorothy in a voice barely above a whisper. "I didn't expect them. When I found they had come I hardly knew what to do. And when they declared I had no husband I had to request you to come."
"Something of the sort was my conclusion," Garrison told her. "I have blundered along with fact and fiction as best I might, but what am I supposed to have done that excites them both to insult me?"
Dorothy seemed afraid that the very walls might hear and betray her secret.