CHAPTER X
FOR a moment Jeff Legge stood, helpless with rage. Then he flung all his weight against the door, but it did not yield. He took up the telephone, but changed his mind. He did not want a scandal. Least of all did he wish to be advertised as Jeffrey Legge. Compromise was a blessed word, he knocked at the door.
"Marney, come out and be sensible," he said, "I was only joking. The whole thing was just to try you.”
She offered no reply. There was probably a telephone in the bedroom, he thought. Would she dare call her father?He heard another door unlocked. The bedroom gave on to the corridor, and he went out, to see the big chambermaid emerging. She was alone, and no sooner was she outside the door than it was locked upon her.
"I'll report you to the management," he said furiously.
