Widden, after an astonished pause.
Mr. Letts nodded. "You see, I don't know you yet," he explained, "and as
head of the family I want to see how you behave yourself. Properly
speaking, my consent ought to have been asked before you walked out with
her; still, as everybody thought I was drowned, I'll say no more about
it."
"Mr. Green knows all about me," said Mr. Widden, rebelliously.
"It's nothing to do with him," declared Mr. Letts. "And, besides, he's
not what I should call a judge of character. I dare say you are all
right, but I'm going to see for myself. You go on in the ordinary way
with your love-making, without taking any notice of me. Try and forget
I'm watching you. Be as natural as you can be, and if you do anything I
don't like I'll soon tell you of it."
The bewildered Mr. Widden turned, but, reading no hope of assistance in
the infuriated eyes of Mr. Green, appealed in despair to Betty.
"I don't mind," she said. "Why should I?"
Mr. Widden could have supplied her with many reasons, but he refrained,
and sat in sulky silence while Mr. Letts got ready. From his point of
view the experiment was by no means a success, his efforts to be natural
being met with amazed glances from Mr. Letts and disdainful requests from
Miss Foster to go home if he couldn't behave himself. When he relapsed
into moody silence Mr.
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