"I am altogether a monster?"
"No," she replied, calmly. "A very ordinary young man, I should say."
"I'd be kind to dumb animals and not kick a baby--"
"I am quite serious," she answered.
"You objected to any little pleasantness on my part because what I said might not be altogether sincere. Now we are going to have facts. Indeed, you are the type of man I dislike.
"
"At least, we know where we are now," he responded.
"Yes. And as we are staying in the same house it may be as well.
"
Miriam rose slowly. She walked decidedly across the room, and ostentatiously placed herself beside Mrs. Gunnison.
Leeds, deserted, did not move. He sat staring at the floor, as he softly drummed with his fingers on the couch's leather arm.
As well as in certain other particulars, the life of a country house is microcosmical in this-escape from the requirements of human relationship is impossible.
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