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Almar were to go in her tiny coupé, and the four others in Linburne's large car. "And so," she observed as soon as they started, "the mouse preferred the trap after all?" And he could feel that she was laughing at him in the shadow. "But feels none the less grateful for the kind intention to rescue him." "Oh, I don't care much for the gratitude of a man in love with another woman."
There was just one chance for him that Christine might be willing to release him. If she really loved Linburne, if there had been some sort of understanding between them in the past, if his coming had only precipitated a lovers' quarrel, then certainly Christine had too much intelligence to let such a chance slip through her fingers just on the eve of Linburne's divorce.
Nancy had asserted that Christine had never intended for a minute to marry Riatt that she had just used him to excite Linburne's jealousy to such a point that he would arrange matters so that he could marry her himself. For once Riatt found himself in accord with Nancy. "Do more people than your sister think that?" Hickson was not without his reserves.
"Linburne's offer is not by any chance the reward for my giving Christine a suitable release?" Hickson was really shocked. "How can you think such a thing, Riatt?" "Where did you see Linburne?" Hickson hesitated, but confessed after some protest that it had been at Christine's house. "But you don't understand, you really don't," he said.
He did not stop to inquire why if he were willing to give Christine up to Hickson he was infuriated at the idea of Linburne's marrying her; nor why, as he had allowed himself to be made use of, he was angry to find that he had been far more useful than he had supposed. He only knew that he was angry, and with an anger that demanded instant action. He looked at his watch.
Linburne that he let me have my visit undisturbed?" There was a long and rather terrible pause, terrible that is to the two men. Christine probably enjoyed every second of it. There was nothing in Linburne's experience of life to make him think that any woman whom he had honored with his preference was likely to prefer another man to himself.
"When you first heard of Linburne's engagement?" She nodded at him, like a child who would like to lie its way out of a scrape. "But then I often cry over trifles," she added. "Like my going away?" "Really, Max, you ought to be able to understand why I cried over Lee's engagement. It was Nancy who brought me the news, and she was so triumphant over it.
Nor was she, he thought bitterly, too proud to stoop to ask a man to reconsider; nor did it seem likely, however deeply Linburne's vanity had been wounded, that he would refuse to listen. With this in mind, as soon as he reached his hotel, he sat down and wrote her a letter: "My dear Christine: "What was it, according to your idea, that happened this afternoon?
"Oh, I dare say, but I don't care about that sort of gossip. It's absurd to say she and Linburne are engaged. How can a girl be engaged to a married man?" "We must move with the times, my dear Hickson," said Riatt bitterly. "Linburne's no good," Ned went on, "not where women are concerned. He wouldn't treat her well if he did marry her.
Nor Hickson, who failed a little in such attentions. No, it was Linburne and evidently Linburne's attentions were taken so much as a matter of course, that she had not even thanked him, nor had he noticed her omission.
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