"You might put it that way," she said, resting her elbow on the shaky round table, and her chin on the back of her locked fingers. "Captain Kyles and myself intend to make our fortunes, and then marry."
"But Maud----"
"Maud," she interrupted fiercely, "don't talk to me of that wicked girl, or I shall lose my temper. I only hope I won't tell her some painful truths, when I see her."
"Are you going to see her?"
"To-day and here," Señora Guzman glanced at a bracelet watch, "in a quarter of an hour. I wrote and asked her to come here."
"Why here?"
"Because I want to see her in your presence."
"But you don't mean to say that Maud knows anything of----"
"On the contrary she knows a very great deal, and has acted towards you, Mr. Herries, in a most cruel manner."
"Oh, I know that myself. Certainly there are some excuses, seeing that she has lost a fortune."