"I put her in her cab as I was coming in, and she gave the driver the Trenors' address." "The Trenors' ?" exclaimed Mrs.Jack Stepney.

"Why, the house is closed--Judy telephoned me from Bellomont this evening." "Did she?
That's queer.

I'm sure I'm not mistaken.

Well, come now, Trenor's there, anyhow--I--oh, well--the fact is, I've no head for numbers," he broke off, admonished by the nudge of an adjoining foot, and the smile that circled the room.
In its unpleasant light Selden had risen and was shaking hands with his hostess.

The air of the place stifled him, and he wondered why he had stayed in it so long.
On the doorstep he stood still, remembering a phrase of Lily's: "It seems to me you spend a good deal of time in the element you disapprove of." Well--what had brought him there but the quest of her?
It was her element, not his.