But no, her pride would not permit her to do that either, and at the next instant the car was moving away.
She watched it until it had disappeared behind the trees. Then she turned to go back to her bedroom. At the foot of the stairs she met Miss Green who, shocked at the sight of her disordered face, said,
"My goodness, Fenella! What has happened?"
In the plaintive voice of a crying child, Fenella answered,
"He has gone. I have driven him away."
Then she stumbled upstairs, locked the door of her room on the inside, threw herself face down on the bed, burst into a flood of tempestuous tears, and cried aloud to Stowell, now that he could no longer hear her—
"Victor! Victor! My Victor!"
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
THE VOICE OF THE SEA
"Forgive you? Never while that girl lies in prison as the consequence of your sin."