Sommers dropped her arm and strode forward.
"What did she know?" he asked harshly.
"I don't see how she could know anything except suspicions. You know she was queer and a great talker."
Sommers's face worked. He was about to speak when Alves went on.
"I told Jane we had never been married; she asked me where we were married. I suppose I ought not to have told her. I didn't want to."
"It is of no importance," Sommers answered. "It's our own business, anyway; but it makes no difference as we live now whether she knows it or not."
"I am glad you feel so," Alves replied with relief. Then in a few moments she added, "I was afraid she might tell people; it might get to your old friends."
Sommers replied in the same even tone,
"Well? and what can they do about it?"
"I wonder what a woman like Miss Hitchcock thinks about such matters,—about us, if she knew."