Was he now to turn champion, he who only yesterday had doubted?
"And I want you to consider whether you can agree with me.

There is to begin with the woman herself, Stella Ballantyne.

I saw her for the first time yesterday, and to be quite honest I liked her, Margaret.Yes.It seemed to me that there was nothing whatever of the adventuress about her.

And I was impressed--I will go further, I was moved--dry-as-dust old lawyer as I am, by something--How shall I express it without being ridiculous ?" He paused and searched in his vocabulary and gave up the search.

"No, the epithet which occurred to me yesterday at the dinner-table and immediately, still seems to me the only true one--I was moved by something in this woman of tragic experiences which was strangely virginal." One quick movement was made by Margaret Pettifer.