My dear! As though I could ever remember what
I did a MONTH ago! Why, it's always all I can manage to remember
what I did yesterday. Did you give me a note, dear?"
Maggie began to be angry. "Of course I did. You remember perfectly
well. I gave it to you for Martin Warlock. You let him have it, but
meanwhile you read it, and not only that but told everybody else
about it."
Caroline's expression changed. She was suddenly sulky. Her face was
like that of a spoilt child.
"Well, Maggie Cardinal, if you call that being a friend! To say that
I would ever do such a thing!"
"You know you did!" said Maggie quietly.
"Read your letters? As though I'd want to! Why should I? As though I
hadn't something more interesting to do! No thank you! Of course you
have been getting yourself into a mess. Every one knows that. That's
why I came here to-day--to show you that I was a REAL friend and
didn't mind WHAT people said about you! When they were all talking
about you last night, and saying the most DREADFUL things, I
defended you and said it wasn't really your fault, you couldn't have
told what a rotten sort of a man Martin Warlock was--"
"That's enough," said Maggie.
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