Oh, you can never make me think that again--" "Stop!" and she was looking straight at me again.

"I shall listen to you no longer, Lieutenant Galesworth.

I cannot deny the truth of much which you have said, but it is not generous of you to thus take advantage of what was overheard.

It was merely a quarrel, and not to be taken seriously.

He is coming back, and--and I am going to marry him." There was a little catch in her voice, yet she finished the sentence bravely enough, flinging the words at me in open defiance.
"When?
To-night ?" "Yes, immediately, as soon as Captain Le Gaire can confer with my father." I smiled, not wholly at ease, yet confident I knew her struggle.
"You might deceive some one else, Miss Billie," I said quietly, "and perhaps if I were not here this programme might indeed be carried out--I believe Le Gaire is cur enough to insist upon it.