How did she take it ?" "Very ill.

You see, in a rash moment, I had told her to invite her friends for week-ends as she pleased.

So she holds that I have broken faith, and this morning she told me she had arranged to go up and lunch with Donald at the Ritz next week--alone! So again I had to stop it.

But I don't play the jailer even decently.

I feel the greatest fool in creation." Cynthia smiled.
"I quite believe you! And this all happened in the first twenty-four hours?
Poor Philip!" "And I have also been informed that Helena's 'views' will not allow her--in the future--to take my advice on any such questions--that she prefers her liberty to her reputation--and 'wants to understand a bad man.' She said so.