Diana's warm-hearted, spontaneous nature swept it aside with an almost passionate loyalty and belief in her new-found friend.
Once Miss Lermontof had referred to it rather disagreeably.
"So you've decided to make a friend of Miss de Gervais after all ?" she said.
"Yes.

And I think you've misjudged her utterly," Diana warmly assured her.

"Of course," she added, sensitively afraid that the other might misconstrue her meaning, "I know you believed what you were saying, and that you only said it out of kindness to me.

But you were mistaken--really you were." "Humph!" The Russian's eyes narrowed until they looked like two slits of green fire.

"Humph! I was wrong, was I?
Nevertheless, I'm perfectly sure that Adrienne de Gervais' past is a closed book to you--although you call yourself her friend!" Diana turned away without reply.