"What the devil do you mean by behaving in this way ?" and his voice rose in such a gust of anger that Kara, hidden in the wood, rejoiced.

He could not understand what was being said, but the tone of the voice was enough for him.

He did not know whether Chaldea was cheating the Gentile, or cheating him; but he gathered that in either case, she had been repulsed.

The girl knew that also, when her ardent eyes swept across Lambert's white face, and she burst into tears of anger and disappointment.
"Oh, rye, I give you all, and you take nothing," she wailed tearfully.
"I don't want anything.

You silly girl, do you think that for one moment I was ever in love with you ?" "I--I--want you--to--to--love me," sobbed Chaldea, grovelling on the grass.
"Then you want an impossibility," and to Lambert's mind's eye there appeared the vision of a calm and beautiful face, far removed in its pure looks from the flushed beauty of the fiery gypsy.