midday
And Kars beheld in perfect nakedness the dangers to his plans . `` We must get busy , '' was all he said , but there was a look of doubt in his usually confident eyes . Maude lived in an elaborate house farther down the main street , and Alec Mowbray was on his way thither . He had kept from Kars the fact that his midday meal was to be taken with the woman who had now frankly abandoned herself to an absorbing passion for the handsome youth from the wilderness `` inside . '' It was no unusual episode in the career of a woman of her class . On the contrary , it was perhaps the commonest exhibition of her peculiar disposition . Hundreds of such women , thousands , have flung aside everything they have schemed and striven for , and finally achieved as the price of all a woman holds sacred , for the sake of a sudden , unbridled passion she is powerless to control .