"And I know how to put him in your power also!" "In my power!" "Ay." Her face grew hard as if she too held her enemy passive in her grip.
Then her lip curled, and she laughed in scorn.

"Ay! And what must I do to bring that about?
Something, I suppose, you dare not, Louis ?" "Something you can do more easily than I," he answered doggedly.

"A small thing, too," he continued, clasping his hands in his eagerness and looking at her with imploring eyes.

"A nothing, a mere nothing!" "And yet it will do so much ?" "I swear it will." "Then," she retorted, eyeing him shrewdly, "if it is so easy to do why were you undone a minute ago?
And puling like a child in arms ?" "Because," he said, flushing under her eyes, "it--it is not easy for me to do.

And I did not see my way." "It looked like it." "But I see it now if you will help me.