Chapter 51

"Yes. And I know I ought to be very proud and happy about it. It's quite a wonderful thing to come to me. She was looking for somebody to fill the place, at almost the last minute, of the assistant to Professor Huston, the head of the history department. Miss Sinclair has married very suddenly. Doctor Rutherford somehow thought of me--I shall never understand just why." "Are you going to take the position?" "I don't know, I can't work it out." "What a masquerade!" he said, in a strange, puzzled tone. "You come here…