And this experience of being first and most to him made everything so golden, and life so rich, and still I thought of it only as an unusually delightful friendship.

But the evening of my arrival at Shenstone he asked me to come out on to the terrace after dinner, as he wanted specially to talk to me.

Deryck, I thought it was the usual proceeding of making a confidante of me, and that I was to hear details of his intentions regarding Miss Lister.

Thinking that, I walked calmly out beside him; sat down on the parapet, in the brilliant moonlight, and quietly waited for him to begin.

Then--oh, Deryck! It happened." Jane put her elbows on her knees, and buried her face in her clasped hands.
"I cannot tell you--details.