Miss Halcombe’s sharp eyes studied my face attentively.
“You are altering your opinion about Laura,” she said. “You are readier to make allowances for her than you were yesterday.”
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. I only answered—
“Let me know what happens. I will do nothing till I hear from you.”
She still looked hard in my face. “I wish it was all over, and well over,
Miss Halcombe’s sharp eyes studied my face attentively.
“You are altering your opinion about Laura,” she said. “You are readier to make allowances for her than you were yesterday.”
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. I only answered—
“Let me know what happens. I will do nothing till I hear from you.”
She still looked hard in my face. “I wish it was all over, and well over,
