"I have no doubt that he will, when there is need of him. I mean that you do not know him as--I know him. He will adequately reward me for--oh, for more than I have done."
"Indeed." There was an odd smile about the visitor's lips. "He seems to be very much struck with that girl of yours."
"With Inez? He is good to her for my sake. I know what he suffers, because, you see, she is so different from me in all respects. But it is like him, to suffer for me."
"Frankly, Helen, is there a definite engagement between you?"
"Well, Marian, you are trying to dig deeper into my secrets than I quite bargained for. But I don't mind telling you that it was he who asked me to come home."
"He asked you to come home, did he? Did he ask you to come home to be his wife?"
Lady Griswold's cheeks went flaming red.
"Marian, I will tell you nothing else than this, that I am the happiest woman in the world."
There was an odd smile about the visitor's lips.
"You are at least the funniest woman in the world, my dear. It appears to me that you have devoted one portion of your life to the pursuit of one chimera. I only hope that you are not going to devote the remaining portion to the pursuit of another."