Chapter EightFor a moment neither of them moved and then Quintus Tiverton asked sharply,
Where are you going?”
It seemed as if Selina’s voice had died in her throat and she could only stare at him, her eyes very wide in her pale face.
“Tell me!” he demanded again, “where were you going?”
He stepped forward as he spoke, so that instinctively she moved before him back into the house.
As if he compelled her to answer him, she replied in a voice that he could hardly hear,
“T-to – the – river.”
He was very still and his expression was incredulous as if he could not believe what he had heard.
Then something seemed to snap in Selina and, as her hands went out towards him, she cried incoherently,
“It’s – no use! I – cannot – marry him. I love – you! Without you I do not – want to go on –
