"Why, that I'm in love with you!" "Then you think he lies when he tells you that he has recovered his liberty?"!

"Read it?" The ring of his question made his anger at Mona almost resemble for a minute an anger at Fleda; and this resemblance in turn caused our young lady to observe how handsome he looked when he spoke, for the first time in her hearing, with that degree of heat, and used, also for the first time, such a term as "perpetrated." In addition, his challenge rendered still more vivid to her the mere flimsiness of her own aid. "Yes, you've been perfect," she said. "You've had a most difficult part. You've had to show tact and patience, as well as firmness, with your mother, and you've strikingly shown them. It's I who, quite unintentionally, have deceived you. I haven't helped you at all to your remedy."

CHAPTER V This again seemed not what he wanted. "Must you do it bang off?" Fleda, as if she had been holding her breath, gave the sigh of a listening child. "At that place you spoke of in town?"