I apologize.

What I should have said was that, if you will pardon me, she used you, as young women will do, as a foil against her fiance in a time of petty quarreling between them.

Is that plainer ?" It was too plain to Fairchild.

It hurt.

But he nodded his head and the other man went on.
"Now the thing has progressed to a place where you may be--well--what one might call the thorn in the side of their happiness.