"
"Very wise!" he commented. "But you won't have much choice if you decide
to stay with us. Are you going to stay?"
"Are you going to keep me?" said Juliet.
"Certainly," he returned promptly. "I regard you as the most valuable
member of the household at the present moment. Miss Moore, will you tell
me something?"
"If I can," said Juliet.
"Where did you learn such a lot about men?" he said.
She coloured a little at the question. "Well, I haven't lived with my
eyes shut all this time," she said.
"You evidently haven't," he said. "Allow me to compliment you on your
tact! Ninety-nine women out of a hundred would have taken the obvious
course of siding with their own sex against the oppressor. Why didn't
you, I wonder?"
"I'm not sure that I don't," she said, smiling faintly.
He pressed her hand and released it. "No, you don't. You've too much
sense. You know as well as I do that she deserved all she got and more.
You haven't always found her exactly easy to get on with yourself, I'll
be bound."
"I don't think you are either of you that," Juliet said quietly.
He nodded. "Now it's coming! I thought it would. No, Miss Moore, I am
not easy to get on with.
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