"Let him," said Millie contemptuously. "It is quite true that I never knew him. You know, I never would speak to him. How could he be rude?"
"He might say things about you—to other people."
"Well, he can't say anything I'm ashamed of," said Millie coolly.
"You always did despise your enemies."
"Well, I haven't got any enemies now," was the careless answer.
"God grant it!" he replied, thinking of things said to him by Mrs. Cooper and her daughters one day when he went to tennis at the Vicarage.
CHAPTER XXXIII
CALUMNY
I? What I answered? As I live
I never fancied such a thing
As answer possible to give.
—COUNT GISMOND.
Lancelot, returning from what he called distinguishing between the rams and the he-goats, was intercepted by Sybil Ayres.