“Bobs,” he said, when he was alone with her, “the Britishers are in for bitter disappointment when the _Corinthian_ gets to quarantine to-morrow. They’ve been oiling up the thumbscrews in the tower and sharpening the spikes of the Iron Maiden for you. When they find they haven’t got you, our recent acts of evasion will be kindergarten games compared to what may be required to keep you from being extradited. And, to confess the truth, dear, this having all but slaughtered a shipload of people has scared me. I don’t know what I’d find myself doing if they got after you again. So, just to protect me, won’t you marry me now? Come on; let’s become woman and husband!” Roberta kissed him and laughed. “You didn’t really hurt any one. Everybody got off the _Cumberland_, and the _Corinthian_ couldn’t have put out the fire even if it had come right away. I didn’t hurt anybody in England; and, as for their precious old property, I told my lawyer this morning to pay what was right for that.” “You did that? Why?” “I didn’t do those things for votes for women I’d never seen. I--I did them because you made me so mad, and I wanted to show you I didn’t care a thing about you.” “Why?” “Because I did--and thought you didn’t really care for me.” “But now?” “I know.” “Then give me another kiss, Bobs. I’ve loved you ever since I saw you over the garden gate and you dared me. Why did you do that?” “Because I knew I was going to love you, I guess, and tried to deny it.” He held her close a long time, and their kisses no longer could be counted. “Dear, what a dangerous thing is the mating impulse!” “Yes; if you try to deny it.” “Then we’re stopping that right now, aren’t we?” “Right now!” Wherefore upon the passenger list of the steamer for Brazil which sailed from New York next morning appeared the names of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Farnham in the royal suite. By wireless, as they sailed out to sea, they heard of the horror of the British government at finding that the girl on the _Corinthian_ was not Roberta Leigh, and that the very militant suffragette again had escaped. But, in equal sense of outrage, the suffragist leaders in England received the news that Roberta Leigh had paid for all damage done by her in the name of the suffrage cause.