I chose to do so." Mrs.Lockyard laughed again, not very pleasantly.
"And left poor Maurice in the lurch.

That was rather cruel of you after all his chivalrous efforts to deliver you from bondage.

And he so hard up, too." A flush of anger rose in the girl's face.

She tilted her chin with the old proud gesture.
"I should not have married him in any case," she said.

"He made that quite impossible by his own act.