"No one has the right to ask me that." "A man who loves you very, very dearly," said I, "will claim it.

Was the cause Althea Fenimore ?" She looked at me almost in frightened amazement.
"Is that mere guesswork ?" "No, dear," said I quietly.
"I thought no one knew--except one person.

I was not even sure that Leonard Boyce was aware that I knew." Another bow at a venture.

"That one person is Gedge." "You're right.

I suppose he has been talking," she said, greatly agitated.