She stood silently facing me, her face flushed, her bosom rising and falling swiftly.
"I regret very much this necessity," I apologized, "but you have left me no alternative." "I have no desire to be spared," she returned, "and no favors to ask, Lieutenant Galesworth." Our eyes met, mine, I am sure, as resolute as her own, and I stepped back into the hall, closing and locking the door..