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116 comfortable—at least you told me that you could make them afraid of you."

"I told you that I could generally make a woman like me if I wanted to."

"You said that you made them afraid of you as well. I suppose it's the same thing."

"I shouldn't say it was the same night at all."

"Well, I should think it would be very uncomfortable to be made to like a man you were afraid of," said Elsie.

"I don't intend to let you make me uncomfortable, Miss Valliant."

"I am very glad to hear that, Mr. Trant."

"Perhaps you won't like it so much when I tell you that the alternative is that you should be afraid of me."

"I don't feel in the least bit afraid of you now. I don't know what there is to be afraid of."

"Don't you? Well, perhaps some day you may find out. If I set my mind on a thing I always carry it through."

"Really, Mr. Trant, you are quite melodramatic. When you talk like that, and when you sing as you did the other night, you make me sorry"

"Sorry for what?"

"That you ignore your engagements with me in the very rude way in which you ignored them last night."

"I suppose you mean my not coming to claim my dance."

"Naturally."

"I didn't choose to be thrown a dance as you might throw a dog a bone, when you were sitting out half a dozen apiece with Blake and Hallett. I wanted you to sit out with me. And besides you wouldn't take my warning."

"I didn't know that you warned me against Mr. Hallett."

"No, but I warned you against Blake. It made me mad to hear people talking about you and him—knowing him as I do, and knowing very well that it was only because you