Since he had allowed himself to be duped so easily--or at least it had seemed easy to Linda; for, much as she knew of Eileen, she could not possibly know the weeks of secret plotting, the plans for unexpected meetings, the trumped-up business problems necessary to discuss, the deliberate flaunting of her physical charms before him, all of which had made his conquest extremely hard for Eileen, but Linda, seeing only results, had thought it contemptibly easy--she would not ask John Gilman anything.

She would go ahead on the basis of her agreement with Eileen and do the best she could alone.
She counted on Saturday to dispose of the furniture.

The books might go at her leisure.

Then the first of the week she could select such furniture as she desired in order to arrange the billiard room for her study.

If she had a suitable place in which to work in seclusion, there need be no hurry about the library.