She turned swiftly and shut and locked the door.

Then she faced the two men with magnificent courage.
"I have to tell you," she said, addressing them both impersonally, "that my engagement to Guy Ranger is unbroken.

I have just found out that my step-mother has been suppressing his letters to me.
That, of course, alters everything.

And--also of course--it makes it impossible for me to stay here any longer.

I am going to him--at once." Her eyes went rapidly from her father's face to Preston's.