'Rang the bell and requested the servant to show me out.'
'And you went? You actually allowed this man to kick you out--for that was what it came to--without a word.'
'Well, my dear, Miss Bewicke called out to me as I was going down the stairs to say that she sent her love to you.'
'Guy! you dare to tell me such a thing? You allow that creature to insult me by sending such a message, or pretending to; and then you repeat her insolence to me. The little wretch! So you are ruined.'
'Not yet. There are still about four days between me and the worst.'
'Then do you propose to allow her to have you kicked out of her apartments on each of those four days? Besides insulting me? I had hardly imagined that you were that kind of person. But one learns. Well, I suppose if you don't mind, I needn't. Though I really think you might be better off if you returned to Africa before instead of afterwards.'
'That is something like the advice which Horace offered.'
She sat up straighter.
'Did you also see Mr Burton last night?'
'He was waiting in the street when I came out of Miss Bewicke's. He congratulated me on the result of my visit.'