“My wife! It’s a man’s club.”

“Oh, I see. Men only. Rather selfish, isn’t it?”

Herbert Heywood was frankly astonished.

“Selfish? Why selfish? Well, I won’t stop to argue the point. Good-night, Clare. Doubtless you will enjoy Miss Vernon’s remarkable and revolutionary ideas.”

“I am sure I shall,” said Clare.

Mrs. Heywood followed her son to the door.

“Be sure you put a muffler round your neck, dear.”

Herbert answered his mother in a low voice, looking fiercely at Madge Vernon.

“I should like to twist it round somebody else’s neck!”

“I will come and find it for you, dear.”