What difference if he should despise her, provided she brought him help in an hour of crisis.

Physically weary with the long struggle through which she had been passing during the last ten days, sick at heart, and torn with anxiety for the man she loved, she threw herself upon her bed and abandoned herself to a storm of tears.

Her mother came announcing tea, but this she declined, pleading headache and a desire to sleep.

But no sooner had her mother withdrawn than she rose from her bed and with deliberate purpose sat herself down in front of her mirror again.

She would have this out with herself now.