The woman seemed to bid the child farewell, and arose with hands to her breast and quivering lips.

The still-smiling gentleman awaited her.

When she came to him, glancing backward to the sleeping child, he threw about her an elaborate fur cloak and drew her to him, his cynical smile changing to one of deceitful tenderness.

The woman still glanced back at the child, but permitted herself to be drawn through the doorway by the insistent gentleman.

From a door the other side of the bed came a kind-faced nurse.