Instead, she looked frankly into his eyes and answered: "That is what I thought you would ask me.

I shall not refuse to answer.

I married because I wanted to do so." "What!" exclaimed he incredulously.

"I had hoped--er--I mean, feared that you had been--ah--sort of forced into it, you know." "Since my marriage I have discovered, however, that there is no fool like the ambitious fool," she went on as if he had not spoken.

"Do you understand what I mean ?" "That you married for position ?" "That I married simply to become Lady Huntingford." "And you did not love him at all ?" There was something like disgust, horror in Hugh's voice.
"Love him ?" she exclaimed scornfully, and he knew as much as if she had spoken volumes.