Until it does--let us make the most of it--while it lasts." He said the words bitterly.

Constance was confirmed in her original suspicion of him now.

Halsey was getting deeper and deeper into the moral quagmire.

She had seen his interest in Mrs.Noble.Had Bella LeMar hoped that she, too, would play will-o '-the-wisp in leading him on?
Over the still half-eaten supper she watched Halsey keenly.

A thousand questions about himself, about Mrs.Noble, rushed through her mind.
Should she be perfectly frank?
"Are you--are you using the company's money!" she asked at length pointedly.
He had not expected the question, and his evident intention was to deny it.