Some of them did--for the moment, anyhow.
Then Alderdene, blinking furiously, emitted one of his ear-racking laughs; and everybody, as usual, laughed too.
"You damned cynic," observed Voucher affectionately.
"Somebody," said Fleetwood, "insists that she doubled up poor Siward." "She never met Siward until she was engaged to Howard," remarked Voucher.
"Well ?" "Oh, don't you consider that enough to squelch the story ?" "Engaged girls," mused Alderdene, "never double up except at Bridge." "Everybody has been or is in love with Sylvia Landis," said Voucher, "and it's a man's own fault if he's hit.

Once she did it, innocently enough, and enjoyed it, never realising that it hurt a man to be doubled up." Fleetwood yawned again and said: "She can have me to-morrow.

But she won't.

She's tired of the sport.

Any girl would get enough with the pack at her heels day in and day out.