\"Yes.\"
\"With this offer?\"
She nodded.
\"And you refused—because of the conditions?\"
\"I refused,\" she said after a moment.
He sat down by her again. \"What were the conditions?\"
\"Oh, they were not onerous: just to sit at the head of his table now and then.\"
There was another interval of silence. Archer's heart had slammed itself shut in the queer way it had, and he sat vainly groping for a word.
\"He wants you back—at any price?\"
\"Yes.\"
\"With this offer?\"
She nodded.
\"And you refused—because of the conditions?\"
\"I refused,\" she said after a moment.
He sat down by her again. \"What were the conditions?\"
\"Oh, they were not onerous: just to sit at the head of his table now and then.\"
There was another interval of silence. Archer's heart had slammed itself shut in the queer way it had, and he sat vainly groping for a word.
\"He wants you back—at any price?\"
