“What!”
“Certainly.”
“Then she must take another train!”
“Yes, the ten-twenty.”
“Just to avoid me!”
“I am perfectly amazed at the moral turpitude which you and she have at this moment disclosed. Sir, you have been meeting on the trains!”
“One train, please,” grinned Rem, “the ten-thirty.”
“And you have both kept this a secret from me!”
“Certainly,” said Rem, in his turn. “You were against me from the first. Do you suppose that I am going to put my plans into the hands of my enemies?”
“Plans!” shrieked Bell-Bell. “Plans! About her! A Quaker! Doctor Rem, I demand to know what your plans are!”