"You've come down to it, miss, already?" "I don't see very clearly. Of course you must give her what you offered her; of course you must keep your word. There must be no mistake about that!" the girl declared.!

"What do you want of him," Fleda sadly asked, "feeling as you do to both of us?" Fleda was so far from a wish to triumph that she was absolutely ashamed of having anything to say for herself; but there was one thing, all the same, that not to say was impossible. "That he has done it, that he couldn't not do it, shows how right I was." It settled forever her attitude, and she spoke as if for her own mind; then after a little she added very gently, for Mrs. Gereth's: "That's to say, it shows that he was bound to her by an obligation that, however much he may have wanted to, he couldn't in any sort of honor break."

CHAPTER XVI Owen's bewilderment visibly increased. "You think, then, as she does, that I must send down the police?" The door opened, and the smutty maid, edging in, announced "Mrs. Brigstock!"