"Do not misunderstand me," she said rapidly.

"I have done the little that I have done out of gratitude." She faced him now, but without meeting his eyes.

"I told you, remember, that you would understand some day what I meant by that, and the day has come.

I owed you more gratitude than a woman ever owed a man before, I think, and I would have died to pay a part of it.

I set every gossip's tongue in Rouen clacking at the very start, in the merest amateurish preparation for the work Mr.Macauley gave me.