She is not
at all of an unsentimental nature--only fractious--new-womanish,
perhaps; but none the less lovable, and Cupid will have a shot at her
when she least expects it; and when it does come, I'll be on hand to
report the attempted assassination for the delectation of the
Herring, Beemer, & Chadwick public."
"I should think you would try a little persuasion, just for larks," I
suggested.
"You forget I am a realist," he replied, as he went out.
Now I sincerely admired Stuart Harley, and I wished to the bottom of
my heart to help him if I could. It seemed to me that, however
admirable Miss Andrews had shown herself to be generally as a woman,
she had been an altogether unsatisfactory person in the role of a
heroine. I respected her scruples about marrying men she did not
care for, and, as I have already said, no one could deny her the
right to her own convictions; but it seemed to me that in the Bonetti
incident she might and truly ought to have acted differently when the
time came for the presentation. There is no doubt in my mind that
her little speech to Willard, in which she stated that the Count was
a fraud and might not be presented, was a deliberately planned
rebuff, and therefore not in any sense excusable.
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