There--if you want it on the square! What's more, I'll go on as I have done unless you keep away from me.

I don't care what I deserve--what you do--I will--I will!" She had begun falteringly and she ended passionately.
Somehow I kept my head, even though my heart pounded like a hammer and the blood drummed in my ears.

It was the thought of Steele that saved me.

But I felt cold at the narrow margin.

I had reached a point, I feared, where a kiss, one touch from this bewildering creature of fire and change and sweetness would make me put her before Steele and my duty.
"Sally, if you dare break your promise again, you'll wish you never had been born," I said with all the fierceness at my command.
"I wish that now.