But don't you think you're treating Maisie rather badly ?" "You've no right to say so," he burst out hotly.

"No one has the right to say so.

There was never a question of an engagement between Maisie and myself." "Then there ought to have been," I said judicially.

"No decent man plays fast and loose with a girl and throws her over just at the moment when he ought to be asking her to marry him." "I suppose my mother's been at you.

That's what she wanted to see you about yesterday.