Tell me what--incentive you want!" Field rose also.

They stood face to face--the self-made man and the girl who could trace her descent from a Norman baron.

He was broad-built, grim, determined.

She was slender, pale, and proud.
For a moment he did not speak.

Then, as her eyes questioned him, he turned suddenly to a mirror over the mantelpiece behind him and showed her herself in her unveiled beauty.
"Lady Violet," he said, and his speech had a steely, cutting quality, "you came into this room to bribe me to defend a man whom I believe to be a criminal from the consequences of his crime.