“You mean that you know as much as I?”
“Don’t you think it likely?”
“Henrietta—”
“Who is that?”
“My daughter-in-law has done everything for Leo—too much. She gets nothing—not even gratitude. I am sorry to say he has no sense of chivalry towards women. You know him, I daresay. But do you know him thwarted?”
“Ah, you don’t think so badly of me after all?” she said quickly.
“I—I think of you that—that—”
He stopped.
“I think that I could not bear to see the whiteness of your wings smirched by a child of mine.” he added.
“You too!” she said.