MADAME DE TREYMES
lieve I once did you an injustice, to the extent of misunderstanding your motive for a certain action."
Durham's uneasy flush confessed his recognition of her meaning. "Ah, if we must go back to that———"
"You withdraw your assent to my request?"
"By no means; but nothing consolatory you can find to say on that point can really make any difference."
"Will not the difference in my view of you perhaps makes a difference in your own?"
She looked at him earnestly, without a trace of irony in her eyes or on her lips. "It is really I who have an amende to make, as I now understand the situation. I once turned to you for help in a painful extremity, and I have only now learned to under-
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