14/24 Out there in the war she is protected. Here she is with--I spare your lordship the name.' Fleetwood would have heard harsher had he not been Carinthia's husband. The language moved him to proud hostility: but the speaker was Carinthia's brother. I thought him in honour bound to you--and it suited me that I should.' 'I was a blindfold girl, dearest; no warning would have given me sight,' said Carinthia. 'That was my treachery to the love of my brother.. |