“So Bailey did call on you this afternoon? He told me he was going to, but I hoped he would think better of it. But apparently there are no limits to Bailey’s stupidity.”
“Yes, Bailey came to the studio. He seemed troubled about this yacht party.”
“Did he advise you to forbid me to go?”
“Well, yes; he did.”
“And now you have come to do it?”
“Not at all. I told Bailey that you were not the sort of woman one forbade to do things.”
“I’m not.”
There was a pause.
“All the same, I wish you wouldn’t go.”
Ruth did not answer.