"This is an invitation, eh?"
"The first of a nightly series. Life is opening out for you in a wonderful manner, Miss Knight. Don't refuse; my legs have petrified, and a gang of safe-movers couldn't budge me."
She turned with a shrug of mingled annoyance and amusement, and he called after her:
"The Judge's teeth will entertain me till you come. I'll be waiting."
Miss Lynn, as she dressed after the performance, was still in an evil temper; but she thanked her room-mate for aiding her; then, as if some explanation were due, she added, "That note was from Jarvis."
"You puzzle me, Lilas," Lorelei told her, slowly. "I don't think you care for him at all."
Lilas laughed. "Why do you think that? I adore him, but we had an engagement and he broke it. Men are all selfish: the bigger they are the more selfish they become. They never do anything you don't make them."
"He can't sacrifice his business for you."
"Sacrifice! It's women who sacrifice themselves. D'you suppose any of those men we met last night would sacrifice himself for anything or anybody? Not much. They are the strong and the mighty. They got rich through robbery, and they're in the habit of taking whatever they want. They made their money out of the blood and suffering of thousands of poor people, so why—"
"Poor people don't buy steel."