“He spurns me,” groaned Heloise, and fell prostrate to the floor. Instantly Diana was beside her and had raised the bowed head.
“Come with me, my dear. Appeal is wasted on a man like that. Ah, you can laugh!”
“I’m not laughing,” said Gordon indignantly. “What the devil is there to laugh at? If I laughed at anybody I would laugh at you, you ... you booby!”
She cast upon him one harrowing glance of contempt, and then devoted her attention to the girl.
“If I gave you the money to get to your home, would you go?”
Heloise nodded weakly.
“You shall have it to-morrow. Come with me.”
Heloise gently freed herself of the detaining arm.
“No—no, I’ll stay,” she said brokenly. “I guess there’s something I want to say to Dan, something that I want no other woman to hear.”
Diana went pale.