"That you might see what it was like? Et après?"
"He was afraid he had mistaken my character"
Marsham laughed out.
"Poor victim! May I ask what you did it for?"
He found himself looking at her with curiosity and a certain anger. To be engaged, even for twenty-four hours, means that you allow your betrothed the privileges of betrothal. And in the case of Alicia no man was likely to forego them. She was really a little too unscrupulous!
"What I did it for? He was so nice and good-looking!"
"And there was nobody else?"
"Nobody. Home was a desert."
"H'm!" said Marsham. "Is he broken-hearted?"
Alicia shrugged her shoulders a little.