"In the meantime, I _cannot go_ on living with my uncle.

No; I can't." She leans back, and, flinging her arms behind her neck, looks with a little laughing pout at Rylton.

"Some day I shall do something dreadful," says she.
She is charming, posing so.

Rylton looks at her.

How pretty she is! How guileless! How far removed from worldly considerations! His affair with Marian is at an end.