Outrageous! I tell her she isn't worth it. And, now, this
tiresome Morris has money, too; and you say he's as bad as Mina. Have
you talked to her about Mrs. Morris? Mina is strangely sensitive, and,
if you can find it, has a very tender heart."
"I might do that over here," he suggested. "In Eastlake it wasn't
possible. You've discouraged me, though; I suppose I had the idea that
you could lock her up on bread and water."
She laughed. "An army of Minnesota kitchen maids would break into the
house; millions of people have voted Mina their favorite; when she is
out with me the most odious crowds positively stop my car. I won't go
with her any more where she can be recognized." Lee rose, and his
expression showed his increasing sense of the uselessness of their
efforts.
"You mustn't give up," she said quickly; "you never can tell about
Mina. You will come here for dinner, certainly; I'll send the car to
your hotel at seven-thirty, and you will bring your bag. We can't argue
over that, can we? William will enjoy having you very much. Do you mind
my saying he'll be relieved? He is such a Knickerbocker. I needn't add,
Mr. Randon, that you shall be entirely free: whenever you want to go
down town Adamson will take you." The exact moulding of her body was
insolent. "Well, then, for the moment--" She gave him no chance at
refusal, but, with the curtness of her hand, the apparent vanishing of
all knowledge of his presence, dismissed him before he was aware of it
to the adroitness of the maid in the hall putting him into his
overcoat.
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