But I wanted Betty and I swore that only one thing should keep me from her." "One thing ?" I asked.
"The thing that didn't happen," said he.
And so it seemed that Althea accepted the inevitable.

The placid, fatalistic side of her nature asserted itself.

Pride, too, helped her instinctive feminine secretiveness.

She lived for months in her father's house without giving those that were dear to her any occasion for suspicion.

In order to preserve the secrecy Boyce was bound to continue his visits to Wellings Park.