“I was not alone. My brother was nearby. He knew of my going there.”
“Even so,” said Ida, “it was a remarkable thing for a young woman to go to a young man’s apartment on the night before his wedding at nearly the midnight hour.”
The young woman blazed up into a passion.
“I went there in a last attempt to prevent his marriage.”
“To prevent his marriage?” repeated Ida.
“Yes,” replied Miss Rainforth. “By all rights, he was bound to me, and it was I whom he should have married.”
“Do you mean to say that you were engaged?”
“Yes; if promise is an engagement.”
The young woman paused a moment and then said, passionately:
“It was that wretch, that Ladew woman, who interfered. But he never loved her.”