CHAPTER XV

WHEN A WOMAN WILL For a full week Armitage tasted the sweets of invalidism. He was surprised to find it so easy to enact the role of a wounded hero. Though victor in the fight, he found his disabilities serious enough to render inaction agreeable, and his rather hard bed seemed satisfyingly luxurious. It was not in human nature, moreover, to be indifferent to the worshipful attitude of the simple household in which he had found a haven. Randall had not exaggerated the potency of the news that he had “licked” Ayres.…