"How splen-diferous! And you never told us!"
But Burnett Major had already looked at her sister. She was shocked into using her Christian name. "Genista!" she reproved her.
"Let me look again," said Louie.
She looked again at the man who had been cruel, faithless, divorced. Again she handed the "Life" back.
"He keeps a public-house up the river," she said.
At that the tension was suddenly relieved. That, of course, was too much. They breathed freely again. The derisive clamour broke out.
"Oh, don't you see? They've made it up between them—frauds!"
"Of course they have! Come and finish tea."
"She'll be saying that was the man who brought her down next!"
"Causton, I'll never, never believe another word you say!"