"Tell me, Madonna." "It was when you left me in this room alone," she said, her exquisite delicacy rendering her averse to recal, not the coercion she had suffered, but the pain she knew I felt in so coercing her.

"Dearest," she added with a sudden effort, "let me speak frankly, and dispel the pain you feel while you think over it in silence." I kissed the hand that clasped my own, and she went on, speaking with intentional levity.
"Had a Chief forgotten ?" tracing the outline of a star upon her bosom.
"Or did you think Clavelta's daughter had no share in the hereditary gifts of her family ?" "But how did you unlock the springs ?" "Ah! those might have baffled me if you had trusted to them.

You made a double mistake when you left Enva on guard....

You don't think I tempted her to disobey?
Eager as I was for release, I could not have been so doubly false.

She did it unconsciously.