I'm glad you didn't ask me--very glad--for the love a woman gives
a man died within me, you know."
He took her hand and kissed it.
"My dear," said he, "you are the truest friend that ever man had."
There was a short pause. Austin looked out of the window and Katherine
wiped away some moisture in her eyes. This scene of sentimentality was
not at all what she had come for. Soon she rose with a determined air
and joined Austin by the window.
"It was as a true friend that I wanted to speak to you to-day. To warn
you."
"About what?"
"About Dick. Austin, he's madly in love with Viviette too."
Austin stared at her for a moment incredulously. "Dick in love--in love
with Viviette?" Then he broke into a peal of laughter. "My _dear_
Katherine! Why, it's absurd! It's preposterous! It's too funny."
"But seriously, Austin."
"But seriously," he said, with laughing eyes, "such an idea has never
penetrated into old Dick's wooden skull. You dear women are always
making up romance. He and Viviette are on the same old fairy and great
brown bear terms that they have been ever since they first met.
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