You have tricked the great Rushbrook. You are indeed
worthy of being a financier's wife!"
"No," she said passionately, tearing up the paper and throwing it at his
feet; "not as YOU understand it--and never YOURS! You have debased and
polluted everything connected with it, as you would have debased and
polluted ME. Out of my presence that you are insulting--out of the room
of the man whose magnanimity you cannot understand!"
The destruction of the guarantee apparently stung him more than the
words that accompanied it. He did not relapse again into his former
shamefaced terror, but as a malignant glitter came into his eyes, he
regained his coolness.
"It may not be so difficult for others to understand, Miss Nevil," he
said, with polished insolence, "and as Bob Rushbrook's generosity to
pretty women is already a matter of suspicion, perhaps you are wise to
destroy that record of it."
"Coward!" said Grace, "stand aside and let me pass!" She swept by him
to the door. But it opened upon Rushbrook's re-entrance.
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