"No," Sangster agreed quietly. "She certainly cannot be engaged to any other man if her husband is still living."
There was an underlying meaning in his voice. Jimmy swung round savagely.
"What are you trying to get at?" he asked. "If you know anything, tell me and have done with it."
"I don't know anything; I am only repeating what I have heard."
"A pack of gossiping old women"—savagely.
They walked a few steps silently.
"Why not forget her, Jimmy?" said Sangster presently. "She isn't the only woman in the world. Put her out of your life once and for all."
"It's all very fine for you to talk . . . things are not forgotten so quickly. She's done with me—I told you so—and . . . oh, why the devil can't you mind your own business?"