I was born to be a queen, and a queen I'll be--or die!" She suddenly glanced about her with the peculiar, furtive look that Olga had noticed the day before.

"That's why I wouldn't marry Max Wyndham," she said, "for all the riches in the world! He is the One Impossible." Olga felt her colour rising.

She made response with an effort.

"Don't you like him, then ?" "Like him!" Violet's eyes came down to her.

They expressed a fiery chafing at restraint that made her think of a wild creature caged.