You have come into my home and cursed it.
I will never sleep under the same roof with you again." She turned with the words to leave the room, and found her father and George Preston just coming out of the library on the other side of the hall.

Fearlessly she swung round and confronted them.

The utter freedom of her at that moment made her superb.

The miracle had happened.

She had rent the net that entangled her to shreds.
Mrs.Ingleton was beginning to clamour in the room behind her.