"For Olney's sake."
Her eyes were lifted, her hands pressed upon her bosom as if she were communing with her dead lover. Her lips moved for a moment, and then she left the room.
Edmond Stolliker gathered up the letters she had dropped, thrust them into his pocket, and followed.
In the hall he met Ahbel.
"Take me to the conservatory, quick!" he commanded, briefly.
[CHAPTER XV.]
Carlita had never in her life undertaken anything so difficult as her entrance into that room. She was forced to stop outside the door in order to gain some control over her trembling lips, that she might speak the name and meet the eye of the man whom she felt she hated with all the strength of her soul.
It gave Edmond Stolliker time to gain his position in the conservatory, and enabled him to witness the greeting.