There was something about him that made her feel small and thoughtless and selfish.

Slone had hurt her pride.

But the thing that she feared and resented and could not understand was the strange gladness Slone's declaration roused in her.

She tried to control her temper so she could think.

Two emotions contended within her--one of intense annoyance at the thought of embarrassment surely to follow Slone's action, and the other a vague, disturbing element, all sweet and furious and inexplicable.