“Did he offer no resistance?”
“Certainly not. Why should he?”
“Because he has been in the habit of turning back all visitors.”
“Ah,” said Mowbray, listlessly, “that is a thing you ought not to allow.”
“I was afraid,” said Edith, “that he had tried to keep you back.”
“Me?” said Mowbray, with strong emphasis. “He knows better than that, I fancy.”
“And yet he is capable of any amount of insolence.”
“Indeed?” said Mowbray, languidly. “Then why don't you turn him off, and get a civil man?”
“Because—because,” said Edith, in a tremulous voice, “there is one here who—who countermands all my orders.”
“Ah!” said Mowbray, in a listless tone, which seemed to say that he took no interest whatever in these matters.