"Not that." And then she flung out the truth.

"Ross has engaged himself to Theresa Howland, a girl with a huge big fortune.

And I--I--" "You needn't say it," he interrupted, feeling how it was distressing her to confess.

"I understand." "I wasn't altogether--wicked," she pleaded.

"I didn't think of you wholly because I thought you cared for me.