"You'll not betray me ?" she stipulated.
"Why, no.

Tell me." She flushed delicately.

"I am disloyal to Ruth," she said, "and yet I am loath to see you cozened." "Cozened ?" quoth he hoarsely, his egregious vanity in arms.

"Cozened ?" Diana explained.

"Ruth was at his house to-day," said she, "closeted alone with him for an hour or more." "Impossible!" he cried.
"Where else was the bargain made ?" she asked, and shattered his last doubt.