She believed fate had thrown in her way the lover or husband of Milly Erne.

She believed that through her an evil man might be reclaimed.

His allusion to what he called her blindness terrified her.

Such a mistaken idea of his might unleash the bitter, fatal mood she sensed in him.

At any cost she must placate this man; she knew the die was cast, and that if Lassiter did not soften to a woman's grace and beauty and wiles, then it would be because she could not make him.
"I reckon you'll hear no more such talk from me," Lassiter went on, presently.