And yet you were telling me that you had played with the child." "He came home and told me about you," Mrs.MacNairn said.

"His fear of The Fear was more for me than for himself.

He knew that if he brought you to me, you who are more complete than we are, clearer-eyed and nearer, nearer, I should begin to feel that he was not going--out.

I should begin to feel a reality and nearness myself.

Ah, Ysobel! How we have clung to you and loved you! And then that wonderful afternoon! I saw no girl with her hand through Mr.Le Breton's arm; Hector saw none.
But you saw her.