Yes, it is worthy of you!" She walked rapidly up and down, and then suddenly faced him.

"I understand it all; I appreciate your magnanimity now.

You are willing I should join the company of these chivalrous gentlemen in order to give color to your calumnies! Say at once that it was you who put up this spy to correspond with me--to come here--in order to entrap me.

Yes entrap me--I--who a moment ago stood up for you before these gentlemen, and said you could not lie.

Bah!" Struck only by the wild extravagance of her speech and temper, Clarence did not know that when women are most illogical they are apt to be most sincere, and from a man's standpoint her unreasoning deductions appeared to him only as an affectation to gain time for thought, or a theatrical display, like Susy's.