For one thing, she had instantly recognized in Mr. Sherwood’s companion, Reed Raymond, her old lover, Ray Dering.
She was at a loss to know why he had entered the house on that footing, and she leaped to the angry conclusion that in his mad jealousy of her he had done so to spy upon her actions.
Anger and resentment filled her outraged heart, and she determined to seek an interview with him on the morrow, and threaten to denounce him to his victim unless he took leave.
Then, too, the reappearance of Dallas Bain upon the scene filled her with anxiety.
The startling discovery of the mysterious plot to separate Dallas and Daisie filled her with dismay when she contemplated what effect it would produce if it became known to the latter.
That the young girl was already most unhappy, she knew. She doubted not the knowledge of the truth would drive her to despair.
She was certain that it would cause an unalienable rupture between Daisie and Mrs. Fleming, and what part in it Royall Sherwood must play she could not conjecture. That it could only result in added unhappiness to the wedded pair she knew.
So she had done what she believed the wisest thing in persuading Lord Werter to suffer his wrongs in silence for his old love’s sake.
But the failure of her effort to get him to leave New York filled her with alarm.
While he remained there and chose to seek the society of the girl he loved, and of whom he had been so cruelly cheated, she could not tell what would happen.