But people do change, I suppose--and as long as he means so much to you, I should so like to be friendly." It turned out just as she had expected.

Nourse declined the invitation.
"I'm sorry," she said when her husband told her.

She felt her position strengthened a bit.

At another time she suggested that Joe's partner be asked to spend the rest of the summer with him in the apartment back in town.

It was doubtless so much cooler at night than Nourse's bachelor quarters.