"Why didn't you fall in love with Anne?"
"I did."
"Oh! Then why didn't you marry her?"
"She is going to marry Geoffrey Fox."
Dead silence. Then, "Did she tell you?"
"No. He told me. Last spring."
"Before you came here?"
"Yes. That was the reason I came. I wanted to get away from everything that—spoke of her."
Marie-Louise slipped down from the ladder and came and stood beside him. "He told you," she said in a sharp whisper, "but there must be some mistake. She doesn't love him. She said that she didn't. I wonder why he lied."
There was nothing cold about her now. She was a fiery spark. "Only a—cad could do such a thing—and I thought—oh, Dr. Dicky, I thought he was a man——"
