"I've won you by unfair means--and yet, knowing that, I'm only filled with the exultation of it.

Still, this thing has to be faced and decided now.

You know I love you--but is it right that you should be bound to a man who may never be able to marry you ?" "Is that any great obstacle," asked Ida, "if I don't object ?" "It is," said Weston, hoarsely.

"I want you now." The girl was almost startled by the change in him.

His restraint had broken down once for all, at last, and she saw by the tension in his face and the glow in his eyes that his nature was stirred to its depths.