"You heartless monster! Enjoy your work." And he flung her the admiral's letter.

But he did not wait while she read it; he heaped reproaches on her; and, for the first time in her life, she did not reply in kind.
"Are you mad ?" she faltered.

"What have I done ?" "You have told Admiral Bruce." "That's false." "You told him I was to be here to-day." "Charles, I never did.

Believe me." "You did.

Nobody knew it but you.