"I was only thinking," she murmured.
"Then there is doubt in your mind what you would do ?" "N--no," she hesitated.
He bent over nearer across the table.

"You would at least recall the old adage, 'Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you' ?" he urged.
It was uncanny, the way this man read her thoughts.
"You know whom they say quotes scripture," she avoided.
"And am I a--a devil ?" "I did not say so." "You hinted it." She had.

But she said, "No, nor hinted it." "Then you did not MEAN to hint it ?" She looked away a moment at the gay throng.

"Graeme Mackenzie," she said, slowly, "what's the use of all this beating about?
Why cannot we be frank with one another ?" She paused, then resumed, meditatively, "A long time ago I became involved with a man in a scheme to forge checks.

I would have done anything for him, anything." A cloud passed over his face.