See what trouble she has got herself into!" Hilliard took up the letter again, and again there was a long silence.
"Have you said good-bye to her ?" were his next words.
"She's going to meet me at the station to see me off." "Did she come from Dudley with you ?" "No." "It's all very well to make use of you for this disagreeable business----" "Oh, I didn't mind it!" broke in Patty, with irrelevant cheerfulness.
"A woman 'who does such things as this should have the courage to go through with it.

She ought to have come herself, and have told me that.
She was aiming at much better things than _I_ could have promised her.
There would have been something to admire in that.

The worst of it is she is making me feel ashamed of her.

I'd rather have to do with a woman who didn't care a rap for my feelings than with a weak one, who tried to spare me to advantage herself at the same time.

There's nothing like courage, whether in good or evil.