Bitter as that memory was--torturing--yet now the same means seemed not too abhorrent to employ under the circumstances.

No harm had come to Cowperwood in the former instance, she reasoned to herself--no especial harm--from that discovery (this was not true), and none would come to him now.

(This also was not true.) But one must forgive a fiery, passionate soul, wounded to the quick, some errors of judgment.

Her thought was that she would first be sure just what it was her beloved was doing, and then decide what course to take.

But she knew that she was treading on dangerous ground, and mentally she recoiled from the consequences which might follow.