"I'd like the lark, but I won't hurt Guardie's feelings; so that's the end of it."
"Going to be a surprise, they say."
"What kind of a surprise?"
"Going to spring a big sensation."
Elena's eyes began to dance again.
"The woman called the Scarlet Nun is going to speak, and Herman Wolf, the famous 'blond beast' of Socialism, will preside. They are mates—affinities."
"Married?"
"God knows. A hundred weird stories about them circulate in the under-world."
"I won't go! Don't you say another word!" Elena snapped.
Norman was silent.