"I also placed my notice there yesterday evening!"
"By what train did you come?"
"By the Verbena Special. It arrived at St. Augustine yesterday at four o'clock in the afternoon."[170]
"I also came on that train."
"I," she said, "waited in St. Augustine only long enough to telephone for servants, and then I jumped into a victoria and drove over the causeway to the eastern end of the quarry."
"I did exactly the same," he insisted, "only I drove to the western end of the quarry. What time did you set your notice?"
"I don't know exactly. It was just about dusk."
"It was just about dusk when I drove in my stake!"
After a moment's idling in the sand with her slim fingers, she looked up at him a trifle pale.
"I suppose this means a lawsuit."