Bonnie May looked slightly dismayed.
“A business man,” added Mr. Addis firmly. “I’ve admired Miss Flora a very long time. I had chances just to be nice and polite to her. I haven’t taken any pains to hide from her, for a year or so——”
“I understand,” Bonnie May finished for him.
“Well, then. But the trouble is that Mrs. Baron——”
“She can only see you with a pencil behind your ear,” supplemented Bonnie May.
Mr. Addis laughed. “Now you have it!” he agreed.
Bonnie May pondered. “You know you’re not a regular-looking Romeo,” she conceded.
“I know that very well. But at the same time——”
She gave him time to finish; then, as he seemed to lack words, she came to his aid again: “If you undertook to pay a lady’s travelling expenses, it would take a pretty smooth Iago to make you do anything nasty.”
“That’s it!” agreed Mr. Addis with emphasis.