"Let us hope that so happy an ending to all your sufferings is not far off, my dear Mr.O'Day.

And now another question before we part for the night, one I perhaps ought to have asked you before.

Are you quite positive that Kitty's visitor was your wife ?" He had reserved this hopeful suggestion--one he himself believed in--for the last.

It would help lift the dead weight of bitter anxiety which was sure to overwhelm his visitor in the wakeful hours of the night.
Felix moved impatiently, like one combating a physician's cheering words.

"It must have been she, who else could have dropped the sleeve-link ?" "Several people.