“There are generally more possibilities than one in any given event, I fancy.”
Again Anthony was surprised at the words of Sergius, who seemed to grow calmer as he grew more excited, who seemed, to-night, strangely powerful, not simply in temper, but even in intellect.
“For a woman there is sometimes only one possibility if she is to be saved from ignominy, Serge.”
“So you think that Olga Mayne must become the wife of Vernon, who is a—”
“Coward. Yes.”
At the word coward, Sergius seemed startled out of his hard calm. He looked swiftly and searchingly at Anthony.
“Why do you say coward?” he asked sharply. “I was not going to use that word.”
Anthony was obviously disconcerted.
“It came to me,” he said hurriedly.