I do." They were his last words on the subject.

He seemed to think it ended there, and there was nothing more to be said.
As for Doris, she sat by his side, outwardly calm but inwardly shaken to the depths.

To be thus firmly caught in the meshes of her own net was an experience so new and so terrifying that she was utterly at a loss as to how to cope with it.

Yet there was a chance, one ray of hope to help her.

There was Major Brandon, the man who had offered her freedom.