Give yourself to me with a word, and I shall make you mine forever.

Then Caroline shall go free--free as the wind--to her lover, my dear, who is waiting." He made no step toward her, and he kept his voice smooth and clear.

Had he done otherwise he knew that she would have shrunk.

She looked to him, she looked to Caroline Smith.

The latter had suddenly raised her head and thrown out her hands, with an unutterable appeal in her eyes.