"You will tell her so?" Lorraine demanded eagerly.
"I have told her so—many times within the last few weeks. I told her so to-day."
"And she——?"
Pendleton shook his head.
"It doesn't seem to appeal to her, Lorraine."
"I will do the next best thing—I'll stand by her," he exclaimed. "If she won't have me for husband, she can't object to the moral and active support of the man who has the first right to render it. Indeed, if I am with her, if I instituted the fight, what has Society to say?"
"That is the proper attitude, Lorraine," Pendleton replied. "It will go far to sustain Stephanie's story."
"I'll do everything in my power to make amends for the past," Lorraine went on. "Maybe it will soften her a little toward me."
Pendleton said nothing.