She'd make him a man! And she could see how pleased it would make his sister.
And he would do his best to make Maggie happy--his very best! The young super-adventuress--she herself had mentally used the word "adventuress" in thinking of herself, as being more genteel and mentally aristocratic than the cruder words by which Barney and Old Jimmie and their kind designated a woman accomplice--this young super-adventuress, who had schemed all this so adroitly, and worked toward it with the best of her brain and her conscious charm, was seized with new panic as she listened to the eager torrent of his imploring words, as she gazed into the quivering earnestness of his frank, blue-eyed face.

She wished she could get out of the machine and run away or sink through the floor-boards of the car.

For she really liked Dick.
"I'm--I'm not so good as you think," she whispered.

And then some unsuspected force within her impelled her to say: "Dick, if you knew the truth--" He caught her shoulders.

"I know all the truth about you I want to know! You're wonderful, and I love you! Will you marry me?
Answer that.