20/25 "A more monstrous story never was invented." He spoke, in the warmth of his indignation, loud enough for Grace to hear him. "What is there monstrous in it ?" she asked, advancing a step toward him, defiantly. He too--though he had only once seen Mercy--felt an angry sense of the insult offered to the beautiful creature who had interested him at his first sight of her. "Silence!" he said, speaking sternly to Grace for the first time. "You are offending--justly offending--Lady Janet. |