”
“It’s a dangerous game.”
“I have everything to gain.”
“I wish I could stay here with you,” she said. “Have you no friend, no one whom you could trust in this delicate matter?”
“Why, yes — Jack.”
A shadow passed over her face.
“Do you know,” she said, “I have a feeling that you care more for him than for me?”
“Nonsense,” he said, “he is my friend, you, you — immeasurably more.”
“Are you still as intimate with him as when I first met you?”