“Isn’t it yours too?” he smiled.
“In a way, yes,” she acknowledged, “but this involved real sacrifice and I want reward. I went to the theatre with the Covingers.”
“Was the play deadly?”
“No, but the Covingers are.”
“He isn’t a bad sort, and——”
“Oh, I know that he’ll have the delegation from his state, and that it’s one of the big states; but oh, my dear, have you ever had to listen to his wife?”
“She isn’t so terrible, Rhoda.”
“Oh, of course, if you will look at people as characters rather than as social factors, you won’t see the awfulness of the Mrs. Covingers of Washington. But really——”
“Did Manning hint at why he had to see me to-night?”
“At nothing but the importance of seeing you. He is bringing he said, Mr. Laflin and Senator Wilk.”