"You're looking awfully thin," she exclaimed, with sudden compunction.

"I wish you had never gone into this horrid campaign.

I wish they had nominated somebody else." Lorne smiled half-bitterly.

"I shouldn't wonder if a few other people wished the same thing," he said.

"But I'm afraid they'll have to make the best of it now." Dora had not sanctioned his visit by sitting down; and as he came nearer to her she drew a step away, moving by instinct from the capture of the lover.