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"It's Rose all right, and she
knows what she's doing."
"You mean you've seen her off the stage--talked with her?"
He nodded.
She pulled in a long sigh of anticipatory relief.
"Well, then," she demanded, "what did she say? How did she explain how
she _could_ have done such a thing as that?"
"I didn't ask her to explain," said Rodney. "I asked her to come home,
and she wouldn't."
"Oh, it's wicked!" she cried. "It's the most abominably selfish thing I
ever heard of!"
He made a gesture of protest, but it didn't stop her.
"Oh, I suppose," she flashed, "she didn't _mean_ any harm--wasn't just
trying to do the cruelest thing she could to you. But it would be a
little less infuriating if she had."
"Pull up, Freddy!" he said. Rather gently though, for him. "There's no
good going on like that. And besides ... You were saying Harriet would
do anything in the world for me. Well, there's something _you_ can do.
You're the only person I know who can."
Her answer was to come around behind his chair, put her cheek down
beside his, and reach for his hands.


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