’For God’s sake, Carbury, do not speak in that way.  It sounds as though you meant to throw me over.’

’I should have said that you had thrown me over.  You come down here to this hotel, where we are both known, with this lady whom you are not going to marry;—­and I meet you, just by chance.  Had I known it, of course I could have turned the other way.  But coming on you by accident, as I did, how am I not to speak to you?  And if I speak, what am I to say?  Of course I think that the lady will succeed in marrying you.’

‘Never.’

’And that such a marriage will be your destruction.  Doubtless she is good-looking.’

’Yes, and clever. ...