"Because she's jealous," she said. "Evidently that wasn't your reason; I don't know what yours was; but that's mine."
"Oh!" I said. In the face of a statement so preposterous I really could think of nothing else to say.
"What else did she come here yesterday for?" Louie demanded.
I smiled. That was too absurd. "Well—shall we say to keep an appointment with her husband?" I suggested.
"Oh, if you like!... Then why does she want to come and see me at my house?" she demanded.
It was news to me that Evie did want to go and see Louie at her house, but I was careful not to let Louie see that.
"Oh!" I said, still smiling. "And you think these grounds enough for your statement?"
"My good——" she broke out. "I'm not asking you to accept them. I know better than to try to persuade you! You asked me, and I've told you; that's all."
"And if I say once for all that it is not so, and that nothing could make it so?"