"Did you?"
He nodded.
"If you had only warned me!" she sighed.
"What good would it have done? You would have scorned advice—resented it. Though I think I would have risked it had I the least notion of whither you were tending."
"I wish you had risked it!" she exclaimed. "It might have made me realize what I was doing. I had no one but Lorraine to depend on."
"You had yourself, Stephanie."
"Myself was the one thing I ought not have had," she replied. "Lorraine should have taken me away—out of temptation. If need be he should have knocked me down with a club like a cave man and dragged me out of Amherst's clutches."
"Again what good would that have done? You would only have panted for Amherst the more, and have gone to him at the first opportunity."
"It would have saved me—and I would have seen Amherst then for what he is—a coward."