"Well, he can, I'm at anybody's mercy!"
She got up, stood over him for a moment looking so tall and slender, so dark with diamonds in her black hair, so lovely to-night!
She looked down upon him, then suddenly bent and kissed him.
"Roddy——"
"What is it, dear?" He caught her hand so fiercely that she cried:
"Roddy dear, I——"
"Yes."
"Oh, nothing, only you look so tired, I wish I could take some of the pain——"
"There isn't any, dear, I'm wonderfully lucky."
Peters came in to take him to bed.