Did Maud know something more than he himself ?--was the doubt in Paul's mind.

But they were thinking of different things.
"I can't, I can't!" the wretched man exclaimed, spreading out his arms on the desk.

"Perhaps in a few months--but I doubt.

I can do nothing now; I am helpless; I am not my own master.

O God, if I could but go and leave it all behind me!" Maud could only guess at the meaning of this.