And yet, at the same moment you were protesting, and denouncing, and saying those horrible things about her! I know how she appears--she likes admiration.

But the admiration in the world which she would most delight in just now would be yours.

She plays with Captain Lovelock as a child does with a wooden harlequin, she pulls a string and he throws up his arms and legs.

She has about as much intention of eloping with him as a little girl might have of eloping with a pasteboard Jim Crow.

If you were to have a frank explanation with her, Blanche would very soon throw Jim Crow out of the window.