A WOMAN'S FEAR
LENISE ELROY was troubled; she felt uneasy, afraid of something, she hardly knew what; she had a presentiment that a calamity hung over her, that much trouble was in store.
Fletcher Denyer was irritated. She was not at all like the gay woman of a few days back; what ailed her? He questioned her, received no satisfactory reply.
"I want to go to town," he said.
"I don't; I like being here."
"But I must return to London, I have a lot of business to see to."
She smiled; when he talked about business it amused her.
He noticed it and said angrily: "You never think I do anything in the way of business."
"I judge by results," she answered.
"And I don't show any, is that it?"
She nodded.
"Look here, Len, we've been together for a couple of years and been good friends; we d
