She could not meet it, she decided; she must go, at all hazards, even if, to achieve her purpose, she made some concessions to the man who had denounced her so harshly, and used such language as is not easily forgotten.
"Richard," she began, and her eyes had a strange glittering light in them, "with regard to the past I shall say nothing now, but that Frank was here in Camden I had not the slightest knowledge till I heard it from you.

Believe me, Richard, and let me go.

My absence will seem very strange, and cause a great deal of remark.

Another time I may explain what would best have been explained before." The light in her eyes was softer now, and her voice full of entreaty; for Ethie felt almost as if pleading for her life.

But she might as well have talked to the wall for any good results it produced.