She sought no counsel from any other.
"Then I am very grieved for both of you," said Hillyard.

Joan made a movement as if she were about to rise.

"Will you wait just a moment ?" Martin asked.
He guessed that some hint of Stella Croyle's story had reached the girl's ears.

He understood that she would be hurt, and affronted; that she would feel herself suddenly steeped in vulgarities; and that she would visit her resentment sharply upon her lover, and upon herself at the same time.

And all this was true.