True, you've said nothing about it to me for ever so long, and when I have asked you for news of him your answers have shewed me that all was not well.

But you've never told me, or anyone, that the engagement was broken off." Her young face was set sternly as she looked into the fire.
"It's not broken off--in the formal sense.

Leonard thought fit to let it dwindle, and it has dwindled until it has perished of inanition." She flashed round.

"I'm not the sort to ask any man for explanations." "Boyce went out with the first lot in August," I said.

"He has had seven awful months.