If you'll wait six months--or even _three_"--urgently. "Oh,
Brett, you will wait?"
"'Even three,'" he repeated thoughtfully. Suddenly he threw up his head
and laughed. "I see it--it's as clear as daylight! I believe"--smiling
blandly--"you are proposing to marry Coventry next month. At least, I'm
told that's the programme. And I suppose you count on paying off Tony's
debt--with Coventry's money. Is that it? What a charming arrangement!"
Ann felt her colour rise till her whole face and neck seemed scorching with
the hot rush of blood.
"Whatever the arrangement would be, you may be sure it would be a perfectly
fair one," she said steadily. "Nor does it concern you so long as you get
the money owing to you."
"On the contrary, it would concern me very much to be paid off with
Coventry's money. I shouldn't like it a bit. He's got the woman I want--and
he can keep his damn money!"
Sick as she felt under the insult of his manner, Ann forced herself into
making yet another appeal.
"Brett, please be merciful! Put me outside the matter altogether. It isn't
a question of you and me. It's Tony. And"--her voice breaking--"I want to
save him."
"I think it's very much a question of you and me," he retorted.
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