But this one
appeared to fall to the ground, so that he let the subject drop.
Mrs. Alsager, however, went yet once more to the "Legitimate," as he
found by her saying to him abruptly, on the morrow: "Oh, she'll be
very good--she'll be very good." When they said "she," in these
days, they always meant Violet Grey, though they pretended, for the
most part, that they meant Nona Vincent.
"Oh yes," Wayworth assented, "she wants so to!"
Mrs. Alsager was silent a moment; then she asked, a little
inconsequently, as if she had come back from a reverie: "Does she
want to VERY much?"
"Tremendously--and it appears she has been fascinated by the part
from the first."
"Why then didn't she say so?"
"Oh, because she's so funny."
"She IS funny," said Mrs. Alsager, musingly; and presently she added:
"She's in love with you."
Wayworth stared, blushed very red, then laughed out. "What is there
funny in that?" he demanded; but before his interlocutress could
satisfy him on this point he inquired, further, how she knew anything
about it.
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