But Christine would not listen.
"I shall ask Mr. Kettering not to tell Horace—if I ever see him again," she said agitatedly.
Gladys laughed dryly.
"Oh, you'll see him again right enough," she said laconically.
CHAPTER XVII
JIMMY BREAKS OUT
It took Jimmy a whole week to realise that Christine meant what she said when she asked him not to write to her, or go near her. At first he had been so sure that in a day or two at most she would be sorry, and want to see him; somehow he could not believe that the little unselfish girl he had known all his life could so determinedly make up her mind and stick to it.
He grumbled and growled to Sangster every time they met.
"I was a fool to let her go. The law is on my side; I could have insisted that she stayed with me." He looked at his friend. "I could have insisted, I say!" he repeated.
Sangster raised his eyes.