"What Government?"
"How can you ask such a question?"
"I do ask it. I sent for you three times—the third time after midnight. It wasn't very modest, perhaps, I was so miserable I didn't care. I just wanted to put my arms around your neck and tell you to love me always—that nothing else mattered—"
"Nothing else does matter, dearest—"
"Yes—it does. It matters whether you have used me to betray my people. Where were you at twelve o'clock night before last?"
"I'd rather not tell you—"
"I demand it—"
A quizzical smile played about Socola's handsome mouth as he faced her frankly.
"I was in a gambling establishment—"
"Whose?"