Given the time, she would rise above the mischief that confounded her.

To have uttered the words that hung unuttered on her lips would have glorified him and brought shame to her pride forever more.

Five words trembled there awaiting deliverance and they were good and honest words--"Take me back, Braden darling!" They were never spoken.

They were formed to answer a different call from him.

She checked them in time.
"I did not come here to see you," she said at last, standing very straight beside the table.