She's
been against her from the first. What I want to know is has Amy been
to father with this? Because if she has I'm going to stop it. I'm
not going to have her bothering father with bits of gossip that
she's picked up by listening behind other peoples' key-holes."
Amy, meanwhile, had come in and heard this last sentence.
"Thank you, Martin," she said quietly.
He turned to her with fury. "What did you mean at breakfast," he
asked, "by what you said about myself and Maggie Cardinal?"
She looked at him with contempt but no very active hostility.
"I was simply telling you something that I thought you ought to
know," she said. "It is what everybody is saying--that you and she
have been meeting every day for weeks, sitting in the Park after
dark together, going to the theatre. People draw their own
conclusions, I suppose."
"How much have you told father of this?" he demanded.
"I don't know at all what father has heard," she answered.
"You've been that girl's enemy since the first moment that she came
here," he continued, growing angrier and angrier at her quiet
indifference. "Now you're trying to damage her character.
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