IV.
After a few minutes, when John Bailey’s trouble had died away in the distance, they all stopped being stunned and behaved like people again. Mr. and Mrs. Perry were panicky as to how far Josephine was involved; then they became angry at John Bailey for coming there with disaster hanging over him.
Mr. Perry demanded: “Did you know he was married?”
Josephine was crying; her mouth was drawn; he looked away from her.
“They lived separately,” she whispered.
“She seemed to know he was out here.”
“Of course he’s a newspaperman,” said her mother, “so he can probably keep it out of the papers. Or do you think you ought to do something, Herbert?”
“I was just wondering.”
Howard Page got up awkwardly, not wanting to say he was now going to the tennis finals. Mr. Perry went to the door and
