Life is not going to be very easy for the next few days." She held on to his arm.

She seemed curiously reluctant to let him go.
"Everard," she said, "when we are at Dominey shall I be able to see Doctor Harrison ?" "Of course," he assured her.
"There is something I want to say to him," she confided, "something I want to ask you, too.

Are you the same person, Everard, when you are in town as when you are in the country ?" He was a little taken aback at her question--asked, too, with such almost plaintive seriousness.

The very aberration it suggested seemed altogether denied by her appearance.

She was wearing a dress of black and white muslin, a large black hat, Paris shoes.