When she spoke her voice was low and calm.

He knew that at last she had come to the hour of her greatest fight, and in that moment he was more unnerved than she.
"In a few minutes my mother and father will be here, Philip," she said.
"The letter Jean brought me back there, where we first saw each other, came up by way of Wollaston House, and told me I need not expect them for a number of weeks.

That was what made me happy for a little while.
They were in Montreal, and I didn't want them to return.

You will understand why--very soon.

But my father changed his mind, and almost with the mailing of the letter he and my mother started home by way of Fond du Lac.