"
"If you wouldn't play bridge with Mrs. Harley?"
"Exactly."
"And you "
"Declined to pledge myself."
She clapped her hands softly. "Well done, Waring Ridgway! There are times
when you are magnificent, when I could put you on a pedestal, you great
big, unafraid man. But you mustn't play with her, just the same."
"Why mustn't I?"
"For her sake."
He frowned past her into space, his tight-shut jaw standing out saliently.
"You're right, Virginia. I've been thinking so myself. I'll keep off the
grass," he said, at last.
"You're a good fellow," slipped out impulsively.
"Well, I know where there's another," he said. "I ought to think myself a
lucky dog."
Virginia lifted quizzical eyebrows. "Ought to! That tastes of duty. Don't
let it come to that. We'll take it off if you like." She touched the
solitaire he had given her.
"Ah, but I don't like"--he smiled.
CHAPTER 12. ALINE MAKES A DISCOVERY
Aline pulled her horse to a walk. "You know Mr. Ridgway pretty well, don't
you?"
Miss Balfour gently flicked her divided skirt with a riding-whip,
considering whether she might be said to know him well.
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