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HER heart sank, and it came to her, with terrifying force, that her great trial was near at hand. She had taunted Digby with his cowardice, but she knew that he would show no mercy to her, and unwillingly she had played into his hands by admitting that she knew she was the heiress to the Danton fortune and that she had known his character, and yet had elected to stay in his house.
The door was slammed and locked, and she was left alone. Later she heard for the second time the splutter and crash of the aeroplane's engines as the Spaniard tuned them up.