Yet, even on her return home after the ball, she learnt something of the extent to which she had jeopardized her own chances of happiness and success in life. Imogen Ingram, with tears pouring down her face, terrified her daughter the more because she was heartbroken rather than angry. “How could you do it, Monica—how could you, darling? A man who isn’t even a gentleman!” “He is—he is!” Monica protested passionately, for she thought the accusation a most terrible one. To say that man wasn’t a gentleman was to put him outside one’s life altogether and for always. “You know nothing about him—except that I told you to have nothing more to do with him. And now you see how right I was. As if a gentleman would ever have behaved like that to a young girl!” For Mrs. Ingram had known, without questioning Monica at all, that Captain Lane had been her companion. Someone had seen them leaving the ball-room and had innocently said so when Mrs. Ingram began to enquire anxiously where Monica could be.
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