"She is more human; it is not her way to use a sledge-hammer when a lighter weapon will serve her purpose; and then she never forces confidence, she is the most tactful woman I know." Malcolm broke off abruptly here as Leah entered the room.

She wore the same dark red dress she had worn the previous day, and had a travelling wrap over her arm.

She carried a small Gladstone bag, of which Malcolm at once relieved her.
"I packed this last night," she said in a low voice, "and I wrote this letter.

Will you give it to him ?" Then Malcolm glanced at the address; it was to Cedric, and he put it carefully in his breast-pocket.
"He shall have it," was his answer.

"Now, if you are ready, we may as well go." "If we are quiet no one will hear us," she observed in the same subdued voice.