I insist on my right to the place that she has stolen from me.
It's no use scolding me," she added, turning doggedly to Julian.

"As long as that woman is here under my name I can't and won't keep away from the house.

I warn her, in your presence, that I have written to my friends in Canada! I dare her before you all to deny that she is the outcast and adventuress, Mercy Merrick!" The challenge forced Mercy to take part in the proceedings in her own defense.

She had pledged herself to meet and defy Grace Roseberry on her own ground.

She attempted to speak--Horace stopped her.
"You degrade yourself if you answer her," he said.