With a desperate courage she faced the position.

"If you are ready to listen," she went on, "I am ready to tell you why I insisted on having the police officer sent out of the house." Horace held up his hand warningly.
"Stop!" he said; "that is not all." His infatuated jealousy of Julian (fatally misinterpreting her agitation) distrusted her at the very outset.

She had limited herself to clearing up the one question of her interference with the officer of justice.

The other question of her relations with Julian she had deliberately passed over.

Horace instantly drew his own ungenerous conclusion.
"Let us not misunderstand one another," he said.