And if there is anything in those letters you do not care to have discussed below stairs, you ought either to lock them up or destroy them." Her face was burning hot; but she met his gaze with equanimity, slowly nodding serene assent to his suggestion.
"Shiela," he said pleasantly, "it looks to me as though what you have done for your family in that hour of need rather balances all accounts between you and them." "What ?" "I say that you are square with them for what they have done in the past for you." She shook her head.

"I don't know what you mean, Louis." He said patiently: "You had nothing to give but your fortune, and you gave it." "Yes." "Which settles your obligations toward them--puts them so deeply for ever in your debt that--" He hesitated, considering the chances, then, seriously persuasive: "They are now in _your_ debt, Shiela.

They have sufficient proof of your unselfish affection for them to stand a temporary little shock.

Why don't you administer it ?" "What shock ?"--in an altered voice.
"Your divorce." "I thought you were meaning that." "I do mean it.

You ought to have your freedom; you are ruining your own life and Hamil's, and--and--" "Yours ?" "Let that go," he said almost savagely; "I can always get along.