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A SOCIAL METEOR. 285 While she was talking a change had come over Lee’s face. He had grown deadly white, and his eyes were scintillating dangerously. Now he took a step toward her and clutched her wrists in his hands. ‘You dared to do this!” he hissed. “I dared to do anything then,” she declared, coolly. ‘All is ‘fair in love and war,’ you must bear in mind, and I was in desperate distress. What’s the difference? We are both all right now, aren’t we? And avowedly happy.” “Wretch! fiend! do you suppose I shall stay with you after this?” ‘And why not ?” ‘“T loathe and despise you !” “A moment ago you declared you couldn’t get along without me. Ah, my dear fellow, you mustn’t be so hard on me. What I did was wrong, undoubtedly very wrong; I have confessed it, but after all it was natural. Loads of women situated as I was would have acted as I did, on the impulse of the moment, if they had the courage.” “Not unless they were as black-hearted as you are,” he returned harshly. “Listen: you just asked meif I loved you. I will tell you now—no, I do mot love you, and never did. She was the only woman I ever loved, and ever can love.”’ “Tndeed ? You came with me, like a little lamb, nevertheless,” retorted Ray. (E(aVAAICEl Kool KS (E(o)