"I ran again, but I knew I could not escape him... The years of convalescence had left me too weakened for sudden flight in the dark... I rounded a corner and before me an open space of grass led down to the lake--the lake where Jeffrey had drowned! I had trapped myself-and even as I slowed my steps my pursuer gave a shout of triumph and grabbed for me..." When Liza Durant is saved from drowning by Jeffrey Forrest, she little realizes how much this...