"You'll make me do nothing. I'm going to be just what I said, and I'm
going to make a success of it. Just wait--I'll prove to you what I can
do! And you--you'll be a failure, and will come slinking back and beg
us to take you in!"
They glared at each other silently, angrily, their aroused wills
defying each other. For a moment they stood so. Then something--a
mixture of his desire to dominate this defiant young thing and of that
growing change in him toward her--surged madly into Larry's head. He
caught Maggie in his arms and kissed her.
All the rigidity went suddenly from her figure and she hung loose in
his embrace. Their gazes held for a moment. She went pale, and
quivering all through she looked up at him in startled, wide-eyed
silence. As for Larry, a dizzying, throbbing emotion permeated his
whole astonished being.
Suddenly she pushed herself free from his relaxing arms, and backed
away from him.
"What did you do that for?" she whispered huskily.
But she did not wait for his answer. She turned and hurried for the
stairway. Three steps up she turned again and gazed down upon him. Her
cheeks were once more flushed and her dark eyes blazing.
"It's going to be just as I said!" she flung at him. "I'm going to
succeed--you're going to fail! You just wait and see!"
She turned and ran swiftly up the stairway and out of sight.
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