Again she thought of Gertrude. "I wonder," she said pensively, "if you really know."
"At any rate I know as much as Tanqueray."
"Do I bore you with Tanqueray?"
He shrugged his shoulders.
"You don't deny his genius?"
"I don't deny anybody's genius," said Brodrick furiously.
Jane looked at him.
"I don't think it's nice of you," said she, "to talk that way to me when I've been so ill."
"You've no right to be ill," said Brodrick, with undiminished rancour.
"I have," said Jane. "A perfect right. I can be as ill as ever I please."