That she was madly, recklessly in love with him there can be no doubt.

Nor can there be doubt that unconsciously she fired the passion in him.

The deliberate, cold-blooded seducer of his friend's daughter, such as Boyce, in his confession, made himself out to be, is a rare phenomenon.

Almost invariably it is the woman who tempts--tempts innocently and unknowingly, without intent to allure, still less with thought of wrong--but tempts all the same by the attraction which she cannot conceal, by the soft promise which she cannot keep out of her eyes.
That was the beginning of it.

Betty, whom he loved, and to whom he was engaged, was away from Wellingsford.