Then he closed the door behind her as she went out.
From the door, he crossed quickly to the window to see her leaving the building. He told himself it was merely to see whether, as she had said, she had come with companions or alone. A man and a woman—the woman certainly middle-aged—left the building and entered the motor waiting in the street. He waited with some impatience at the window to see Lorine leave.
Wade Hereford seeing other men he knew fall in love and marry, had sometimes asked himself why, after his youthful, brief but wide experience of women, they had suddenly lost interest for him. He had told himself it was because he had found his chief pleasure in contest. It must be, he thought, that he had found the contest too easy with
