It is for the first and last time, remember!' She put up her mouth, and he kissed her long.

'You forgive me ?' she said crying.
'Yes.' 'But you are ruined!' 'What matter!' he said shrugging his shoulders.

'It serves me right!' She withdrew, wiped her eyes, entered and bade good-bye to Anna, who had not expected her to go so soon, and was still wrestling with the letter.
Raye followed Edith downstairs, and in three minutes she was in a hansom driving to the Waterloo station.
He went back to his wife.

'Never mind the letter, Anna, to-day,' he said gently.

'Put on your things.