There was an evening when Daphne's sudden softness, the look in her eyes, the inflection in her voice had fairly thrown him off his balance.

For the first time he had shown a lack of self-command and self-possession.

Whereupon, in a flash, a new and strange Daphne had developed--imperious, difficult, incalculable.

The more he gave, the more she claimed.

Nor was it mere girlish caprice.