She had never felt the ruthlessness of the East more strongly than she felt it that night.

But the drugged feeling that had so possessed her in the mountains was wholly absent from her now.

She felt vividly alive, almost painfully conscious of the quick blood pulsing through her veins.

She was aware of an intense longing to escape even while the magic of the night yet drew her irresistibly.

Deep in her heart there lurked an uncertainty which she could not face.