But of course Dundas will get out of it somehow or other, in the end." "Do _you_ think he will, Eric ?" asked Aunt Lil.
"I hope so with all my heart," he answered.

But his face showed that he was deeply troubled, and my heart sank down--down.
As I realised more and more the danger in which Ivor stood, my resentment against him began to seem curiously trivial.

Nothing had happened to make me feel that I had done him an injustice in thinking he cared more for Maxine de Renzie than for me--indeed, on the contrary, everything went to prove his supreme loyalty to her whose name he had refused to speak, even for the sake of clearing himself.

Still, now that the world was against him, my soul rushed to stand by his side, to defend him, to give him love and trust in spite of all.
Down deep in my heart I forgave him, even though he had been cruel, and I yearned over him with an exceeding tenderness.

More than anything on earth, I wanted to help him; and I meant to try.