If you knew more about women, you would know that there is
nothing one resents so much in the world as affection that is offered in
the way that you were offering me your kiss just then. Please come and
put me in the elevator. I am going now. You will hear from me in a day
or two. I shall write and ask myself to dinner."
He took her outside and rang the bell for the elevator. They stood for a
moment in front of the steel gate.
"I am afraid," he said quietly, "that in your heart you must think me an
ungrateful beast."
"Yes!" she answered, "I suppose I do! But then all men are ungrateful,
and there are worse things even than ingratitude."
The lift shot up and the door was swung back. There was no time for any
further adieux. Norris Vine walked slowly back into his office, with his
hands clasped behind his back.
CHAPTER XI
MR. LITTLESON, FLATTERER
Once more a little luncheon was in progress at the corner table in the
millionaires' club. This time Littleson also was of the party. He had
been describing his luncheon of the day before to his friends.
"I am dead sure of one thing," he declared. "She is on our side, and I
honestly believe that she means getting that paper.
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