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ONCE MORE THE CROSSWAYS AND A CHANGE OF TURNINGS.
The suspicion of his having come to impart the news of his proximate marriage ultimately endowed her with sovereign calmness.

She had need to think it, and she did.

Tea was brought to her while she dressed; she descended the stairs revolving phrases of happy congratulation and the world's ordinary epigrams upon the marriage-tie, neatly mixed.
They read in one another's faces a different meaning from the empty words of excuse and welcome.

Dacier's expressed the buckling of a strong set purpose; but, grieved by the look of her eyes, he wasted a moment to say: 'You have not slept.