come-between

Updated: May 21, 2025

Kirke Waldron, understanding intuitively the position as come-between in which he had been placed in Ridgeway Jordan's big automobile by Julius's misreading of the railway timetable, and, as far as that part of the situation was concerned, wishing himself a hundred miles away, was also keenly alive to that which the gods and Julius had given him by seating him beside Dorothy.

Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond - The Brown Study