"Well, tackle her without one and feel yourself laid out in a cold bath."
"I likely would!" Devereux laughed. Then he became serious. "What the devil was her idea in having Porshinger? Gladys Chamberlain is the last one to be inoculated with the money madness that seems to have afflicted the rest of the social world."
"Yes," said Cameron, "if she had been any of a score of women, I should say that she was fascinated by his wealth, but I'll not believe it of Gladys."
"She has no need," observed Burgoyne. "Old Chamberlain's got enough, the Lord knows!"
"What do you think, Pendleton?" demanded Devereux.
"I don't think."
"Merely negative, or do you mean you don't want to think?"
"A little of both, thank you," said Pendleton.
"I believe you have been confided in by the lady!" Devereux exclaimed.