"Mrs. Fitzgerald is almost heart-broken, and very angry, too. She declares that she will never forgive her daughter."
"Is she so proud?" he asked, drawing his chair a little closer.
Cissy noticed the movement, and blushed prettily as she replied:
"As proud as a queen. But yet she is a magnificent woman, and I sympathize with her in her sorrow."
Before he could reply, there was an interruption, the cause of which we must explain.
Little Miss Claire, the pet and darling of the household, had run away from her governess in a willful mood and hidden herself where she could not be found. Miss Erroll, searching every room in turn for her naughty pupil, blundered suddenly upon the pair of lovers in the blue reception-room.
Cameron Clemens heard the sweep of her robe, and glanced hurriedly up.
The next moment he was upon his feet.
"You! You!" he burst out, with instant recognition, and in a tone of defiant hate.
It seemed to him in that startling moment, that Azuba Aylesford, the imperious actress, had come again, as she did years ago, to part him from his love, sweet Cissy.