He lost his self-command, already shaken by her strange behavior.

"You know that I love you, Miss Lindsay," he said.

"It may not be a perfect love, but, humanly speaking, it is a true one.

I almost told you so that day when we were in the billiard room together; and I did a very dishonorable thing the same evening.

When you were speaking to Trefusis in the avenue I was close to you, and I listened." "Then you heard him," cried Gertrude vehemently.