She took it, and kissed it impulsively.

He flushed, and drew it back quickly and shyly.
"Some day I shall be able to repay you for all your goodness," she said.
"I am only grateful now--grateful altogether.

And you will tell me all you knew of him--all that he said and did before he died ?" "I will gladly tell you all I know," he answered, and he looked at her compassionately, and yet with a little scrutiny, as though to know more of her and how she came to be in Aden.

He turned to me inquiringly.
I interpreted his thought by saying: "I am the surgeon of the 'Fulvia'.
I chanced upon Miss Caron here.

She is travelling by the 'Fulvia'." With a faint voice, Justine here said: "Travelling--with my mistress." "As companion to a lady," I preferred to add in explanation, for I wished not to see her humble herself so.