Torilla heard voices drawing near and she braced herself for a contact with the Marquis--a man whose reputation for extravagance and cruelty terrified her.

"Here is Gallen, Torilla, and now you can meet him," she heard her cousin say.

With an effort Torilla raised her eyes. Then her heart did a double somersault in her breast and the whole room seemed to whirl around her.

Torilla recognized the notorious Marquis of Havingham as none other than the handsome stranger who had saved her from peril the night of her stagecoach accident!