"I could not dissuade you, and now if the duke leaves Ghent--if your father reaches Peronne--before we return, God help us all." "Yes, dear uncle," said Yolanda, humbly; "as usual, I was at fault.

I have been a source of trouble and danger to you nearly all my life, and you, of all persons in the world, I would make happy." I was riding ten paces behind Castleman, but the wind came toward me, and I was an involuntary listener.

What I had heard was of such tremendous import to Max that I could not bring myself to rein back my horse, though I despised myself for listening.

I believe that moment was, of all my life, the greatest test of my love for Max.

No less a motive could have induced me to become an eavesdropper.