His Other Wife: A Novel — page 125: what you’re looking at

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SPINNING A WEB. 417 CHAPTER XI. SPINNING A WEB, Leda was not a woman who could rest passive under a condition of things that threatened to set at naught her most passionate feelings and thwart her secret desires. Nor was she blind to the fact that a fresh, bright, true- hearted creature like Faith Hilary—the very antithesis of her own character—was precisely the person to appeal to the nobler sentiments of a man with Gordon Warren’s innate love for truth and purity, in the same measure as her own voluptuous fascinations had enthralled his sensu- ous being. She knew instinctively that in the moment when those finer chords were struck in Warren’s soul, their music would forever silence the siren notes to which his senses had listened a little while ago. Too wise to attempt any overt or direct interposition of obstacles to the growing intimacy between them, she nevertheless determined that a prompt barrier should arise to set Warren and Faith apart effectually, Such women as Leda Croft are born with a subtle genius for strategy. It is part of their wonderful power over others that they divine situations and execute move- ments by intuitions almost unerring. Eomicbooks.¢co im D>