"I am to be received as an honored guest whenever I shall choose to visit Oakley."
"Well."
"Next, you are to do all in your power to further my suit with Miss—you know."
"That's an easy task."
"Lastly, you are to promise me not, now or at any future time, to declare to any one aught you may know that might be to my disadvantage."
"That is to say, I am not to tell Ellen Arthur, or others, that you have two wives—"
"Softly; one, my dear, one. Mrs. Percy Jordan, number one, is dead; you alone are left. You see, Alice, my dear, the thing is reversed. You have two husbands now, while I—"
"Will have two wives as soon as you can get them!"
"Just so."
"And what guarantee have I that you will not betray me to Mr. Arthur?"