Chapter Five“Waiting?” Dorinda repeated in surprise. “For what?” What?”
“For the lecture you are obviously going to give me!”
Dorinda did not answer and Maximus Kirby continued mockingly,
“Surely it is your duty as a chaperone to rebuke me or can you really be so banal as to say that you leave it to my conscience?”
“It is not for me either to criticise or rebuke you, Mr. Kirby.”
There was a little pause and then he asked,
“Are you shocked?”
The tone of his voice had now changed and she answered him seriously,
“I don’t really know – I don’t think I am shocked – I think I understand – ”
She saw him smiling in the moonlight and thought that he had the same cynical twist on his lips that she had noticed when he came back to the Saloon.
She knew that he was waiting for her to say more
