There's something crooked about it, and he knows it, and is trying to--" "I know all that." Evadna interrupted without apology.
"Well, of course, if you DO--then I needn't tell you how silly it is for you to complain of being neglected, when you know his time is all taken up with trying to ferret out a way to block their little game.

He feels in a certain sense responsible--" "Yes, I know.

He thinks he should have been watching somebody or something instead of--of being with me.

He took the trouble to make that clear to me, at least!" Evadna's eyes were very blue and very bright, but there was no look of an angel in her face.
Miss Georgie pressed her lips together tightly for a minute.

When she spoke, she was cheerfully impersonal as to tone and manner.
"Chicken, you're a little goose.