"Only those who have been in chains know the meaning of freedom." "Are you free now ?" "Not entirely.

Who is ?" He was looking at her more closely; and when at last she raised her eyelashes and met his gaze, the lovely glow which gave her beauty its look of October splendour suffused her features.

Anger seized her in the very moment that the colour rushed to her cheeks.

Why should she blush like a schoolgirl because of the way this man--or any man--looked at her?
"Are you going to marry Benham ?" he asked; and there was a note in his voice which disturbed her in spite of herself.

Though she denied passionately his right to question her, she answered simply enough: "Yes, I am going to marry him." "Do you care for him ?" With an effort she turned her eyes away and looked beyond the green stems and the white flowers of the narcissi in the window to the street outside, where the shadows of the young leaves lay like gauze over the brick pavement.
"If I didn't care do you think that I would marry him ?" she asked in a low voice.