But I fell ill at your gates." "And now that you're restored to health, you propose in the same debonair fashion to--well--to resume the search ?" "Of course," said Paul, all the fighting and aristocratic instincts returning.

"Why not ?" There were no tears in his eyes now, and they looked with luminous fearlessness at Miss Winwood.

He drew a chair to the edge of the bearskin.

"Won't you sit down, Miss Winwood ?" She accepted the seat.

He sat down too.