“Oh!” she said softly. “So-so you told him that, did you? And—what else did you tell him?”
“Only what you told us—that he said 'the day could not begin too soon'; that he said he wouldn't let you be a manicure and wash the hands of men who weren't fit to wash the streets you walked on.”
There was a pause.
“Did I tell you he said that?” breathed Anita Flagg.
“You know you did,” said Holworthy.
There was another pause.
“I must have been mad!” said the girl.
There was a longer pause and Holworthy shifted uneasily.
“I'm afraid you are angry,” he ventured.
“Angry!” exclaimed Miss Flagg. “I should say I was angry, but not with you. I'm very much pleased with you. At the end of the act I'm going to let you take me out into the lobby.”