"Oh—that! It was terrible, I know, but you were not the aggressor. I mean about the note."
"Do notes—or things like it—matter now?" he asked.
"Yes; they matter very, very much. I wish to explain. I—I went out there to Palm Island to fight out my fight with myself."
He looked at her radiant young face and said: "You won."
"Yes, that is the wonderful part of it: I didn't know whether I would win when I went there. Garman was so terribly strong. He dominated me, and seemed to control my thoughts and feelings. But—do you remember what you said in the path there the other day—when I asked you to go away—when Garman spied on us?"
"What was it?" he asked.
"Oh! Don't you remember?"
"Let me see—I called Garman a cad."
"Oh, no, no, no! You remember you said—you said——"
He looked in her eyes and understood.