It crashed through the glass, exploding as it went, and there was a tense silence.
'I told you that you were a fool,' remarked Miss Spencer slowly, 'coming here like a sort of female Jack Sheppard, and trying to get the best of me.
We are on equal terms now.

You frightened me, but I knew I was a cleverer woman than you, and that in the end, if I kept on long enough, I should win.
Now it will be my turn.' Dumbfounded, and overcome with a miserable sense of the truth of Miss Spencer's words, Nella stood still.

The idea of her colossal foolishness swept through her like a flood.

She felt almost ashamed.

But even at this juncture she had no fear.