It made her furious that he reminded her.

"I did!" she cried. "But how was I to know!"

"I think he might have been rather nice," he said.

"You think I made him what he is!" she exclaimed.

"Oh no! He made himself. But there's something about him——"

Clara looked at her lover closely. There was something in him she hated, a sort of detached criticism of herself, a coldness which made her woman's soul harden against him.

"And what are you going to do?" she asked.

"How?"

"About Baxter."