VI
"Yes, I would!" He looked her fair in the eye, truthfully. "I know that, now—I didn't know it then, but I do now. Yes, I would. Just as I told him—Mr. Rawn."
"You told him, what?"
"Why, that we all have our price. I suppose I had mine."
"So you'd have done that if I had asked you?"
"Then in God's name why did you not ask me? At least, I'd have saved you this!" He smote on the paper with his clenched fist. "Why didn't you ask me to save you this humiliation?"
"I did not, because I knew all along what you'd do if I did ask you."
Silence fell between them now. "Why didn't you?" he once more demanded, half-whispering. "You'd already won. You'd have won me—my principles—my honor."
"Because I did not want to win!" she answered sharply.
"Win what?"