“Of course!” and Gordon, dropping his interested eyes, stared for some moments at the carpet. “But it is n’t true, then, that you discovered her to be a coquette?”
“Ah, that ‘s another matter.”
“You did discover it all the same?”
“Since you want the whole truth—I did!”
“How did you discover it?” Gordon asked, clinging to his right of interrogation.
Bernard hesitated.
“You must remember that I saw a great deal of her.”
“You mean that she encouraged you?”
“If I had not been a very faithful friend I might have thought so.”
Gordon laid his hand appreciatively, gratefully, on Bernard’s shoulder.