"Y-yes; to _your_ home first, if you will let me drop you there--"

"Thank you; that might be imprudent."

"No, I think not. You say you are living at the Gerards?"

"Yes, temporarily. But I've already taken another place."

"Where?"

"Oh, it's only a bachelor's kennel--a couple of rooms--"

"Where, please?"

"Near Lexington and Sixty-sixth. I could go there; it's only partly
furnished yet--"

"Then tell Hudson to drive there."

"Thank you, but it is not necessary--"

"Please let me; tell Hudson, or I will."

"You are very kind," he said; and gave the order.

Silence grew between them like a wall. She lay back in her corner,
swathed to the eyes in her white furs; he in his corner sat upright,
arms loosely folded, staring ahead at nothing. After a while he rubbed
the moisture from the pane again.