"I'm sorry."
"Maybe you had some hopes along this street?"
"I guessed there was something doing," she answered in an echo of his tone.
"It's all fixed then."
"I suppose so."
"Say I don't want you to think I'm only doing this out of expediency."
"You're not?"
"Not altogether."
"Better and better," said Auriole.
"I must scrape half an hour for lunch one of these days and we'll talk over settlements."