"What did Betty make you see?" asked George nervously, for he had not perfect confidence in Miss Sheridan's visions.
"That it was all a question of efficiency. She said that in business a man's stenographer is just an instrument to make his work easier, and if for any reason at all that instrument does not suit him he is justified in getting rid of it, and in finding one that does."
"Betty is very generous," he said coldly. He wanted to hear his wife say that she had not thought him pompous; it was very hard to be thankful for a mere ethical rehabilitation.
Part of his thought-out plan was that Geneviève must herself tell him of the Woman's Forum's investigation; it would not do for him to let her know he had heard of it through a political eavesdropper. So after a moment he added casually:
"And what else did Betty have to say?"
"Nothing much."
His heart sank. Was Geneviève becoming uncandid?
"Nothing else," he said. "Just to justify me in your eyes?"
She hesitated, "No, that was not quite all, but it is too early to talk about it yet."
"Anything that interests you, my dear, I should like to hear about from the beginning." Perhaps Geneviève was not so unemotional after all, for at this expression of his affection, her eyes filled with tears.