"Impossible."
Something in her tone made me look up.
"Very good, then," I answered. "I, for one, can have no use for a man who devotes himself to a girl long enough to win her affections, and then deserts her with as little compunction as a dog does a rat it has shaken. And that is how your Celebrity treated Miss Trevor."
"But Miss Trevor has recovered, I believe," said Miss Thorn.
I began to feel a deep, but helpless, insecurity.
"Happily, yes," I assented.
"Thanks to an excellent physician."
A smile twitched the corners of her mouth, as though she enjoyed my discomfiture. I remarked for the fiftieth time how strong her face was, with its generous lines and clearly moulded features. And a suspicion entered my soul.
"At any rate," I said, with a laugh, "the Celebrity has got himself into no end of a predicament now. He may go back to New York in custody."
"I thought you incapable of resentment, Mr. Crocker. How mean of you to deny him!"