Someone who had injured you, for instance; someone Keok hated, and who had cheated her into marrying him." "I would kill him," said Tautuk quietly.
It was this night the temptation was strongest upon Alan.

Why should Mary Standish go back, he asked himself.

She had surrendered everything to escape from the horror down there.

She had given up fortune and friends.

She had scattered convention to the four winds, had gambled her life in the hazard, and in the end had come to him! Why should he not keep her?
John Graham and the world believed she was dead.