CHAPTER NINE“But, darling, you must understand,” Jack said. “Cannot you see my point of view?”
“No, I cannot,” Fleur replied. “You were engaged to this girl morally even if it was not formally announced. You knew that and you could at least have been honest with me and have told me about her.”
“Why should I?” Jack asked her. “Cannot you see that it meant nothing at the time? We drifted into the engagement when we were only kids. Oh, I suppose we took it seriously to a certain extent, but then Mother disapproved of her and so did Mollie.”
“All the same you were engaged,” Fleur insisted.
“Well, if you like to call it that,” Jack said restlessly. “Besides, if I had told you, would it have made all that amount of difference?”
Fleur hesitated.
She tried to be honest with herself. She had
