“No?”
“Why should they?” she added, a bit sharply. “Why should they meddle with my affairs? I wonder at your presuming to do so—though I know, of course, that yours is a meddlesome business and you a prince of meddlers. What’s it all about? What’s the answer? What are you driving at, anyway?”
“You will learn in time,” Nick informed her. “If what you imply is true, then, you were not used quite right by Darling.”
“No—quite the contrary.”
“Why have you still an interest in his affairs, then?”
“In his affairs?”
“That’s what I said.”
“Nonsense! I have no such interest,” Kate declared, with a stony stare. “I have wiped his name off my slate.[Pg 23]”
“Who is your friend, then, who has such an interest?”
“My friend?”