When did he ever misuse you, or hurt you?
Did he ever treat you badly?
How did you come to know him?
Answer that." She paused and Luzanne flushed.

The first meeting! Why, that was the day Carnac had saved her life, had taken her home safe from danger, and had begun a friendship with behind it only a desire to help her.

And how had she repaid the saviour of her life?
By tricking him into a marriage, and then by threatening him if he did not take her to his home.

Truth is, down beneath her misconduct was a passion for the man which, not satisfied, became a passion to destroy him and his career.

It was a characteristic of her blood and breed.