subsequent to his finding himself responsible for the actions of the girl had effaced this feeling, he thought, almost at once and fully.
As Lorine had been kept abroad by her father constantly from the time of Hereford's first association with him, he had never seen her. Once, after Matthew Regan's death, when business had called Hereford abroad, and again when affairs at home had made a holiday in Europe possible, he had offered to call upon her ostensibly to come to a more perfect understanding with her as to his own powers over her expenditures. Before then, however, through no fault of his own, his relations with her already had become strained and both times she had refused.
As an antagonist he had learned to respect her; for she was the only person in the world
