MAXINE OPENS THE GATE FOR A MAN "You are afraid that du Laurier may find out," he said.

"But he knows already." "Knows what ?" "That I expected to have the privilege of going to your house with you." All that I had gained seemed worthless.

Those quiet, sneering words of his almost crushed me.

On the load I had struggled to bear without falling they laid one feather too much.
My voice broke.

"You--devil!" I cried at him.