All that there was of emotion between them seemed to have become vested in his searching eyes.
"I found what I believe to have been the papers.

They were in the cabinet, just where she had told me.

Then I turned around and found Prince Shan watching me.

He had been there all the time." "Go on, please." "At first he said little, but I knew that he was very angry.

I have never felt so ashamed in my life." "You must tell me the rest, please." She stirred uneasily in her chair.
"It is very difficult," she confessed frankly.
"Remember," he persisted, "that in a way, Maggie, I am your guardian.