I deemed you"-- she pressed her hand to her bosom as if she stilled a pain--"other than you are! I confess it.

But you are their fellow.

You begin as they began, by listening on stairs and at doors, by dogging me and playing eavesdropper, by hearkening to what I say and do.

Right ?" she repeated the word bitterly, mockingly, with fierce unhappiness.

"You have the right that they have! The same right!" "Have I ?" he asked slowly.