“Yes.”

“He’ll only laugh.”

“Beg him for your sake to yield.”

“But what have I to do with it?”

“Very much, I think. It will be better that he yields—really.”

She raised her eyes to his.

“We do not want a scandal, do we?”

“But—”

“If it should come to a fight between Dick Garstin and me there might be a scandal.”

“But my name wouldn’t—”