But perhaps I can serve you best by keeping away from you.

If so, then I will do even that .-- Yours ever, "Hugh." Something within moved Doris to raise her eyes suddenly, and instantly she encountered Jeff's fixed upon her.

The flush in her cheeks deepened burningly.

With an effort she spoke: "Hugh Chesyl wants to know if he may come to see us." "I thought you asked him," said Jeff.
A little quiver of resentment went through her; she could not have said wherefore.

"He was not sure if I meant it," she said.
There was an instant's silence; then Jeff did an extraordinary thing.