She was watching him earnestly.

It seemed to him, as he went to her with the picture, that a new and anxious questioning had come into her eyes.

It was as if she had discovered something in him which she had not observed before, something which she was trying to analyze even as he approached her.

He felt for the first time a sense of embarrassment.

Was it possible that she had comprehended some word or thought of what he had expressed to her?
He could not believe it And yet, a woman's intuition-- He held out the picture.