And the thought gave him an unusual anxiety, for he knew this night that the days were fast approaching which would test to extremity the affection which bound his family together.

He contrived to draw Antonia aside for a few moments.
"Is she not wonderful ?" he asked.

"When did she learn these things?
I mean the way in which she does them ?" Isabel was dancing La Cachoucha, and Antonia looked at her little sister with eyes full of loving speculation.

Her answer dropped slowly from her lips, as if a conviction was reluctantly expressed: "The way must be a gift from the past--her soul has been at school before she was born here.

Father, are you troubled?
What is it?
Not Isabel, surely ?" "Not Isabel, primarily.