You like it, Chloe ?' 'I am used to it.' 'But when you're married to Count Caseldy you'll go ?' 'Yes, then.' She uttered it so joylessly that Duchess Susan added, with intense affectionateness, 'You're not obliged to marry him, dear Chloe.' 'Nor he me, madam.' The duchess caught at her impulsively to kiss her, and said she would undress herself, as she wished to be alone.
From that night she was a creature inflamed..