"It isn't as if you cared twopence for Eugene, you know."
"No, I hate him!" said Kate, unwisely yielding to anger again.
"I thought so. And you will do what I ask?"
"If I don't, what will you do?"
"I shall write to Eugene. I shall see Haddington; and I shall see your aunt. I shall tell them all that I know, and how I know it. Come, Miss Bernard, don't be foolish. You had better take Haddington."
"I know it's all a plot. You're all fighting in that little creature's interest."
"Meaning—?"
"Claudia Territon. But if I can help it, Eugene shall never marry her."
"That's another point."
"His friend Father Stafford will have to be considered there."