With a lunge, Tony flung the door wide open, almost overturning the other man as he did so, and plunged into the room.
"Where's Vyvyan?" he demanded.
She came hurrying out of the bedroom, wrapped in a beautiful negligee that he had bought her. He could see that she had on only pajamas beneath it and that her legs were bare.
"Who are you?" she demanded furiously. "And what do you mean by breaking in here this way?"
Tony caught his breath; she didn't recognize him.
"Why, I'm Tony. I know I've changed a little," his fingers unconsciously felt that awful scar on his left cheek, "but surely you—"
"Tony!" she exclaimed in amazement and came closer to stare wonderingly up into his face. "Why they reported you killed about six weeks ago; it was in the papers."
"Well, I wasn't. I'm right here, and as good as ever." Then he suddenly remembered that strange man, who had closed the door by now and was waiting behind him. He whirled, facing, them both accusingly. "Who's that?" he demanded, and in his voice was a tone that made Vyvyan cringe.
"A—a friend of mine," she answered.
