The sound of a woman's voice

She was pleading, "Don't do this! Lucien Delano, don't do this to me!"

And then, raising her voice a trifle, she cried, shrilly,

‘Delano, are you listening to me? I said you can’t do this to me!!!’

I shrank back trying to hide as the man whom she was clinging to, replied coldly,

" I think you should leave before this becomes ugly."

He turned and the light from the room fell on his chiseled profile, carved in granite. The ...