'What do you mean ?' 'Hush!' she said warningly, and turning away she spoke for a little to the man on the other side of her.

Then she turned back.

'I mean,' she said, 'if two people really care for one another, their love would triumph over everything--everything.

De Valreas would have killed the husband.' She spoke with an intense conviction of the truth of what she said.
'But, my dear child!' replied Drake.

'You--oh, you don't really believe that.' 'I do,' she answered.