Dinah uttered a little quivering laugh, and went to him.
In another moment the door closed, and they stood alone in the passage.
"I knew you wanted to," said Eustace, smiling down into her eyes with the arrogance of the conqueror.
Dinah was panting a little as one who had suffered a sudden strain.

"Of course I wanted to," she returned.

"But that doesn't make it right." He pressed her hand to his heart for a moment, and she caught again a glimpse of that fire in his eyes that had so thrilled her.

She could not meet it.

She stood in palpitating silence.
"Where is the use of fighting against fate ?" he asked her softly.