“About me?”
“Yes. She called you several ghastly names——”
“Which?”
“Well—‘libertine’.”
He roared with laughter but Eris had turned rosy.
“I told her very plainly that you were not,” she said. “I told her you were kind and generous and harmless——”
“Good Lord!” he exclaimed, helpless with laughter again.
“What are you laughing at? You are harmless!” she repeated. “Aren’t you?”
“Yes, darling.... But some encomiums hurt as well as edify.... Never mind. Go on.”
“That was all.... Except she tried to persuade me to give up my profession. She always does.”