Where had she read those lines? But it was no matter where she had read them.
"Your interview with Carolyn seems to have had a disastrous effect," she said. "What did she say to you?"
"She said she forgave me."
"Indeed!"
"Yes; I asked her, you know."
"You asked her?" she said, with an elevation of the eyebrows.
Lawrence nodded. In a moment his wife said, "Now I should really hate to have a man ask me to forgive him for not marrying me. I should hate that. I should want somebody to come and thrash that man for me."
Lawrence raised his head and met his companion's sparkling glance of resentment.
"Of all the stupid things you ever did, Rodney Lawrence, that was the most stupid."
"But I didn't ask her precisely that," he said. "I told her she was lucky not to have me for a husband; but I did beg for forgiveness for the way in which I left her."