"Perhaps you've been thinking of the man?" he opened clumsily.
She shook her head thoughtfully.
"No, I haven't."
"But you could love some one?"
"I suppose so," she answered in such a matter-of-fact tone that for the moment he was baffled. The present situation, he decided, was unfavorable for love-making, and searched desperately within for his next words.
"I wonder what they look like," Adelle mused aloud.
"Who look like—husbands?"
"No, Edward's children—the other heirs," she explained.
"Perhaps there aren't any," he snapped.
And under his breath Mr. Ashly Crane consigned Edward S. Clark and all his offspring to perdition.