Everyone'd say you and he were meeting secretly." "Really!" "But you can be careful how you treat him.

You can show him, and everybody, that there's nothing in it.

You must--" Henrietta hesitated, dared; "you must be just friendly, as you are with Arden and the rest of the men." Hiram's daughter was scarlet.

Full a minute, and a very full minute, of silence.

Then Adelaide said coldly: "Thank you.