“Why—Mr. Sagittarius—oh, why?”
Lady Enid smiled happily.
“It just struck me while I was talking to Sir Tiglath that I would introduce Mr. Sagittarius into the affair.”
“Oh, why?”
“Why—because it seemed such an utterly silly thing to do,” she answered. “Didn’t it?”
The Prophet was silent.
“Didn’t it?” she repeated. “A thing worthy of Miss Minerva.”
It seemed to the Prophet just then as if Miss Minerva were going to wreck his life and prepare him accurately for a future in Bedlam.
“And besides you wouldn’t tell me who Mr. Sagittarius was,” she added.
The Prophet began to realise that it is very dangerous indeed to deny the curiosity of a woman.