15/18 The expression on her face told me she had discovered it locked, herself a prisoner, and that she had turned in desperation. Her first, swift, unrestraining speech gave me full understanding of her despair. "What you said out yonder was all a lie to--to get me to come with you!" "Well, what of it ?" insinuatingly. "All is fair in love and war, I have heard, and this is either the one or the other. Why should n't it be me, my dear, as well as the other ?" "What do you mean? |