So don't try to look concerned and interested in a matter that regards me alone." "But what is it that has always threatened you ?" he insisted gently, coming nearer--too near to suit her, for she backed away toward the high latticed window through which the sun poured over the geraniums on the sill.

There was a seat under it.

Suddenly her knees threatened to give way under her; she swayed slightly as she seated herself; a wave of angry pain swept through her setting lids and lips trembling.
"Now I want you to tell me what it is that you believe has always threatened you." "Do you think I'd tell you ?" she managed to say.

Then her self-possession returned in a flash of exasperation, but she controlled that, too, and laughed defiantly, confronting him with pretty, insolent face uptilted.
"What do you want to know about me?
That I'm in the way of being ultimately damned like all the rest of you ?" she said.

"Well, I am.