“And I suppose,” she said coolly, “you rejoiced when Richard Gray lost his money? You laughed at him for a fool?”
Nicholas stared at her.
“What on earth do you mean?” he asked. “I never knew he had lost money. I would have given my right hand to help him if I had known.”
“He did lose money,” said Trix. “But that’s beside the point. You’d have helped him if you could? You wouldn’t have jeered at him?”
“What do you take me for?” asked Nicholas half angrily.
Trix looked very straight at him.
“Only what you take others for, Mr. Danver.”
There was a dead silence.
“Listen,” said Trix suddenly. “You would have been generous to him, because you cared for him. Do you really think you are the only generous friend?”
Nicholas looked at her. There was a gleam of laughter in his eyes.