If you are wise, you will go back to England." "Absurd!" she scoffed.

"Why, we have only just come! I want to win some money--not that your allowance isn't liberal enough," she added hastily, "but there is a fascination in winning, you know.

And besides, I could not possibly desert Mrs.Draconmeyer.She would not have come at all if I had not joined them." "You are the mistress of your own ways," Hunterleys said.

"According to my promise, I shall attempt to exercise no authority over you in any way, but I tell you that Draconmeyer is my enemy, and the enemy of all the things I represent, and I tell you, too, that he is in love with you.

When you realise that these things are firmly established in my brain, you can perhaps understand how thoroughly distasteful I find your association with him here.