In any case, he has no shadow of a right over her.

He never even asked her to wait for him." "Possibly he thought that she would wait without being asked," said Conyers, still cynical.
"Well, she has ceased to care for him now," asserted Hugh.

"She told me so herself." The man opposite shifted his position ever so slightly.

"And you are satisfied with that ?" he said.
"Of course I am.

Why not ?" There was almost a challenge in Hugh's voice.
"And if he came back ?" persisted the other.