7/14 "I never can do a thing I think right without your warning me over it. Do leave it to me." So, thus admonished, Colonel Lowerby went on with his luncheon. He was sitting nearly opposite her, and he wondered what on earth she was thinking about. He was filled with a concentrated bitterness from the events of the morning. Her utter indifference over the Laura incident had galled him unbearably, although he told himself, as he had done before, the unconscionable fool he was to allow himself to go on being freshly wounded by each continued proof of her disdain of him. |