She believed in letting people alone--a devilish easy philosophy! Still, he wanted to tell her at once, if only to stir her up a bit.

He did not propose to bear this alone! But Deborah was out to-night.

Why must she always be out, he asked, in that infernal zoo school?
But no, it was not school to-night.

She was dining out in some cafe with a tall lank doctor friend of hers.

Probably she was to marry him! "I'll have that news for breakfast!" Roger smote his paper savagely.