"I can't help that."
"Did you tell him why they were dangerous?"
"I tried to. I said that powerful boards of directors authorized cruel and unlawful things to be done, which no individual would do, no matter how rich and powerful he might be."
"Jane, Lot's wife never gave him more of a turn than you've given me! I didn't know you thought about this sort of thing. What did Brendon say?"
"He treated me like a naughty child."
"Must have given him some shock! Go easy, Jane, for the right hand of Brendon is going to sign the check that starts the house that Jerry builds," he laughed.
For a day or so after that talk she found him looking at her with a sort of wondering scrutiny.
"Both Mrs. Brendon and Miss Morton think it is queer that you are never here when they come," he said one day.
"I hope you explain to them that I am busy in the morning."
"But what on earth do you do?"