"Why, Neville?"
"Why what?"
"Your apparent doubt as to the significance of their friendship."
"Dear—I don't know much about those things."
His wife waited.
"Hamil is so nice to everybody; and I've not noticed how he is with other young girls," continued her husband restlessly. "He does seem to tag after Shiela.... Once or twice I thought—or it seemed to me—or rather—"
His wife waited.
"Well, he seemed rather impressed by her field qualities," concluded Cardross weakly.
His wife waited.
Her husband lit a cigar very carefully: "That's all I noticed, dear."