'Tried him! Have you seen Nightingale?'
'O yes. Annabella let him get her carriage and drive home with us. I would not,' said Wych Hazel with energy. 'Not if I had waited there all night.'
'Was he in the carriage with you?'
'Coming home,yes. And after Annabella was set down, I tried him with everything I could think of,or everything he could, rather.'
'I am very curious to hear what arguments you made use of.' Dane bent a little to look at the speaker, with a face half amused and wholly intent. Wych Hazel laughed softly.
'I am not a very round-about person,' she said. 'And if he had had either honour or conscience or feeling, there would have been no need for my speaking at all. And Josephine had just assured me that last year he wanted my fortuneso I asked him how much he would like to have now. In effect.'
'With the understanding that he might have what he spoke for?'
'O yes. Of course,' she added with a flush and a glance, 'he knew that I could only mean within certain limits. I did not tell him what they were.'
Rollo looked at her for a moment almost sternly; but then he broke into a laugh. 'It is like Wych Hazel!' he said.
'Was it absurd?' said the girl, the crimson starting again. 'But I do not see why. I suppose that is like me too,' she added with a half laugh.