Yet there was some wide breach between the two; evidently his own crisis had forced the only communication which had passed between the two for months.

He wondered what that breach could be, and what had been its cause.
And then an idea began to open its possibilities.

What a splendid return, if, somehow, he could do something that would help bring together these two persons who had befriended him!...
But most of the time, while he waited for Miss Sherwood to summon him again, he wondered about Maggie.

Yes, as he had told Miss Sherwood, Maggie was the most important problem of his life: all his many other problems were important only in the degree that they aided or hindered the solution of Maggie.

Where was she ?--what was she doing ?--how was he, in this pleasant prison which he dared not leave, ever to overcome her scorn of him, and ever to divert her from that dangerous career in which her proud and excited young vision saw only the brilliant and profitable adventure of high romance?
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