Sometime he would succeed in getting the girl alone once more, and then he would compel a full confession.
But this was not destined to take place that evening.

She coolly and deliberately defeated every effort he made to get her alone, and yet this was accomplished in a manner so as not to attract the attention of others.

Even Percival Coolidge, who, West felt, was watching them both shrewdly, never suspected the quiet game of hide and seek being played under his very eyes.

Nevertheless, it was this growing suspicion of the man which prevented West from indulging in more rigorous methods.

As the evening progressed he became almost convinced that her principal object was to deceive this gentleman; that she really cared nothing for what the others might think, or say.