Chapter 15

She nodded and followed him into the building. The lawyer’s secretary had seen Reynolds and had at once rung the office of the lawyer and reported that it was Reynolds Macpherson who had come to see him, and he had asked that they be ushered in at once.

The lawyer was a short, skinny-looking man who used more jargons than was necessary while speaking, and Alicia did not enjoy his compliments as much as he thought she did. She was eager to finish whatever business had brought her and leave—not stay and watch the man who had his glasses at the bridge of his nose.

The lawyer spoke at length with Reynolds and only paused to look at her a few times, all of which she nodded through and pretended to be following the conversation.

She was not.

She was a bit worried that she was going to be married for a week all because she needed the money. What if she backed out, got a job, and paid him the money she had earlier gotten from him? Was it necessary that she still went