“Ravant is better than Brown, eh?”
But then he laughed—he had frightened her!
“What’s your first name?”
“Rachel.”
“Heavens! But we might call you Ray. Ray Brown is not impossible. Did you notice that when I spoke of going to Europe and spending the old man’s money, I said we?”
“Yes,” said the girl.
“And it didn’t appeal to you?—make your little heart flutter—Ray?”
“No.”
“But you would help to try to ruin the old man?”
“I think it just for you to punish him in that way—but I am only a nurse.”