His father has no place in my heart." There had been upon him the wild passion of revenge.

It had mastered him before she spoke, and while she spoke, but, as she finished, the understanding spirit of him conquered.

Instead of telling her of Luzanne Larue, and of what he would do if he found things going against him, instead of that he resolved to say naught.

He saw he could not conquer her.

For a minute after she had ceased speaking, he watched her in silence, and in his eyes was a remorse which would never leave them.