There was silence.

“I think,” said Hilda, “it will be best if she names quite another man as corespondent, and you stay out of it altogether.”

“But I thought I’d put my foot right in.”

“I mean, in the divorce proceeding.”

He gazed at her in wonder. Connie had not dared mention the Duncan scheme to him.

“I don’t follow,” he said.

“We have a friend who would probably agree to be named as corespondent, so that your name need not appear,” said Hilda.

“You mean a man?”

“Of course!”

“But she’s got no other?”