If you will not do your duty, then I will try to do it for you." She looked him determinedly in the eyes.

"Through you I have lost nearly all I cared to keep in the world.

I should like to feel that in this one thing you acted honourably." He sprang to his feet, bursting with anger, in spite of the inward admonition that much that he prized was in danger, that any breach with Hylda would be disastrous.

But self-will and his native arrogance overruled the monitor within, and he said: "Don't preach to me, don't play the martyr.

You will do this and you will do that! You will save my honour and the family name! You will relieve Claridge Pasha, you will do what Governments choose not to do; you will do what your husband chooses not to do--Well, I say that you will do what your husband chooses to do, or take the consequences." "I think I will take the consequences," she answered.