meet her eyes now.

"You tell me what you have--And yet you have come--dared to come
here--under this roof--?"

It may be she also recalled his look when first he had entered this
room, and, turning, had seen her; that her mind retained the impress of
a bearing, bold, mocking.

"Oh," she said, "it was infamous!"

The word struck him like a whip, lashed his face to a dull red; the
silence grew.

"I would not presume to dispute or to contradict any conclusion you may
have reached," he spoke at length in a low, even voice. "I had not, as I
said, intended this last, this most inexcusable intrusion. You have now
only one course to pursue--" His gaze turned to the long silken
bell-rope on the wall. "And I promise not to resist."

Her glance followed his, returned to his face, to his eyes, quietly
challenging. She took a step.

"Well?" he said.

She had suddenly stopped; in the hall voices were heard approaching; he
too caught them.

"That simplifies matters," he remarked.