"Take me into your partnership," he said impulsively; "will you?"
"What!"
"Can you? Is it all right?"
"I don't know what you mean!" said Diana.
"Why couldn't I help entertain week-ends with you?"
The proposition seemed to astound them all, even the young fellow who had made it.
For a moment they all stood silent; then, pursuing his own impulsive idea toward a plausible conclusion, he said: "Why not, after all? It would make a better combination than two young girls alone. I've clothes—two trunks in there, two more at the customs—London made and duty paid! Why not? It's a good combination. The more I think of it the better I like it!"
He began to pace to and fro nervously.
"I know a lot of people—the right kind. I'm not ashamed to ask them to employ me. There is no reason why a Tennant or an Edgerton should not be in their houses——"
"But," said Silvette quietly, "the right sort of people, as you call them, have no need of asking anybody to aid them in entertaining. It is very generous of you, Mr. Edgerton, but don't you see that services of our kind will be accepted only by—by newcomers, newly wealthy people—those whose circle is small and not very select."