"I leave you perfectly free in that direction, but you shan't tell lies or disobey me.

Now stay in there and be still." And closing the door on the sobbing culprit, she came slowly back to Phebe, still scowling and pressing her lips firmly together as she drew on her gauntlets.

"Little wretch!" she muttered.
"Gerald, please," said Phebe, flushing scarlet with mortification, "here is Mr.Halloway.I want to introduce him to you." Gerald stopped abruptly and looked up.

She had not seen him before.

A fleet, faint color tinged her clear cheeks an instant, but there was no other sign of embarrassment or annoyance as her dark blue eyes met his with the singularly penetrating gaze with which they looked out on all the world.