“Is it? Why so?”
“It suggests to me that there is some reason why she prefers to keep out of sight at the moment when so much attention is directed toward her.”
“That is very possible.”
“That brings me to the point about which I wished particularly to question you.”
“What is that, Mr. Carter?”
“Nan, do you remember the occasion of our first meeting?”
“As if I ever would forget it!” she said reproachfully.
“Oh, I don’t mean the part of it that you are referring to, Nan. What I did then, in assisting you to put behind you forever the life you had been leading with that man, I would have done for anybody. I would be glad to do it again for any other woman, circumstanced as you were.”
“I know that; but it does not render me the less grateful, for all that.”