"I will not," she said, desperately.
"Then I will shame you in the eyes of your own child," he replied, resolutely, seizing the bell rope.
"No, no! not that!"
"I say I will. Either you go at once, or I call in Kaituna and tell her who and what you are."
Mrs. Belswin writhed in anguish.
"Oh, I could not bear that! My own child! Pity, pity!"
"Will you go?"
"Pity! pity!"
"Will you go?"
"Yes, yes! My own child! I will go. Yes, don't ring the bell; I will go now. But do not tell her--oh, Rupert, do not tell her!"