It passed through her head, "Even now he must make sure that Elspeth is in peace of mind before he can care to triumph over me," and she would perhaps have felt less bitter had he put his triumph first.
His triumph! Oh, she would show him whether it was a triumph.

He had destroyed for ever her faith in David Gemmell.

The quiet, observant doctor, who had such an eye for the false, had been deceived as easily as all the others, and it made her feel very lonely.

But never mind; Tommy should find out, and that within the hour, that there was one whom he could not cheat.

Her first impulse, always her first impulse, was to go straight to his side and tell him what she thought of him.
Her second, which was neater, was to send by messenger her compliments to Mr.and Miss Sandys, and would they, if not otherwise engaged, come and have tea with her that afternoon?
Not a word in the note about the ankle, but a careful sentence to the effect that she had seen Dr.
Gemmell to-day, and proposed asking him to meet them.
Maggy Ann, who had conveyed the message, came back with the reply.
Elspeth regretted that they could not accept Grizel's invitation, owing to the accident to her brother being _very much more_ serious than Grizel seemed to think.