He kept her up late, and bothered her, and then she got a headache.

"But Cedric forbore to tell his friend that he had been so perturbed by the sound of Saul Jacobi's angry voice that he had stolen down the stairs to the passage below.

How long he stood there transfixed with fear and pity it was impossible to say.

No words reached him--only the harsh, vibrant tones of Saul Jacobi's voice and Leah's low, piteous sobbing.
He might have stood there until morning, but the door suddenly unlatched, and he had only just time to steal away; but before he could enter his room a few words did reach him.
"Oh, Saul, please do not leave me like this.

Don't I always do as you wish; only--only I thought you approved; that--that--" but here sobs choked her voice.
"What is the use of turning on the waterworks like this ?" muttered her brother angrily.