Chapter 6There was silence, as both young men considered the question.
Then Jimmy said,
“I think, frankly, he is trying to blackmail us. He knows that we will not want a scandal and thinks we will pay to keep him quiet.”
“If he brings charges,” Charles replied harshly, “he will put a noose round his own neck. After all, there is Indira’s evidence that he was trying to force her into marriage so that he could get hold of her money.”
Even as he spoke, he knew that the publicity such a case would create might destroy Jacobson, but it would also damage Indira’s reputation so that no hostess in any strata of Society would accept her as a guest.
Indira clasped her hands together.
“I am sorry – so terribly sorry,” she said, “that I have – involved you in – this.”
“You could not help it,” C
