"No one but yourself knows where I am, and I have summoned you to
explain my action before you hear of it from him. I do not wish to
be misjudged. Stuart Harley had his warning, but he chose to ignore
it, and he can get out of the difficulty he has brought upon himself
in his own way--possibly he will destroy the whole book; but I wanted
you to know that while he did not keep the faith, I did."
I suddenly realized the appalling truth. My own weakness was
responsible for it all. I had not told Harley of my interview and
her promise, feeling that it was not necessary, and fearing its
effect upon his pride.
"I may add," she said, quietly, "that I am bitterly disappointed in
your friend. I was interested in him, and believed in him. Most of
my acts of rebellion--if you can call me rebellious--were prompted by
my desire to keep him true to his creed; and I will tell you what I
have never told to another: I regarded Stuart Harley almost as an
ideal man, but this has changed it all. If he was what I thought
him, he could not have acted with so little conscience as to try to
force this match upon me, when he must have known that I did not love
Henry Dunning.
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