But I wasn't quite mad enough to act like a cad.

The gate shut.

Oh, Maxine, there were evil and cruel thoughts in my mind, I confess it to you--but how they made me suffer! I stood as if I were turned to stone, and I only wished that I might be, for a stone knows no pain.

Just then a motor cab going slowly along the street stopped in front of your gate.
There were two women in it.

I could see them by the light of the street lamp, though not as plainly as I'd seen the man, and they appeared to be arguing very excitedly about something.