What is there between you and Tudor?'

'Man! he's taken Camilla from me!' The accents of rage and despair were
in Ravengar's voice as he uttered these words. 'He's taken her from me!
She was my typewriter, you know. I fell in love with her. We were
engaged!'

Hugo was startled for a moment; then he smiled bitterly and
incredulously. It seemed too monstrous and absurd that Camilla should
have betrothed herself to this forbidding, ugly, ageing, and terrible
man.

'You were engaged? Never! Perhaps you aren't aware that she was engaged
to Tudor?'

'I tell you we were engaged.'

'She accepted you?'

'Why not? I meant well by the girl.'

'And then she disappeared?'

Hugo spoke with a certain cynicism.

'How do you know?' Ravengar demanded angrily.

'I only guess.'

'Well, she did. I can't imagine why. I meant well by her. And the next