Waldron called, greatly unnerved and not at all himself; and Kate received him with amicable interest.

She had not yet informed her father of the rupture between Waldron and herself, nor did he suspect it.

As for "Tiger," he realized the time was inopportune for any statement of conditions, and held his peace.

But once she should be well, again, he had savagely resolved this decision of hers should not stand.
"Damn it, it can't! It mustn't!" he reflected, as on the third evening he returned to his Fifth Avenue house.

"Now that I'm really in danger of losing her, I'm just beginning to realize what an extraordinary woman she is! As a wife, the mistress of my establishment, a hostess, a social leader, what a figure she would make! And too, the alliance between Flint and myself simply must not be shattered.