Ralph Chainey laughed.
"You needn't be so sarcastic, Mr. Chainey. You haven't seen our beauty yet."
"I saw her last night at the theater."
"Oh, so you did. I forgot that. Well, isn't she charming?"
The handsome actor replied with a quotation:
"'Perfectly beautiful, faultily faultless.'"
"She is all that," Helen Fox replied; but she looked at him with puzzled eyes, and thought within herself that he was somehow piqued at Kathleen Carew. But why, since the two had never met?
Suddenly the reason presented itself to her mind.
"The great vain thing! He is piqued because the beauty didn't come to the luncheon. He is offended because she did not seem anxious to meet him."