The law has stepped in, and forbidden what we thought of.

It must not be.

But we can act honestly, and yet you can be my friend for one little hour?
I have no other--" She could get no further.

Covering her eyes with one hand, by an effort of repression she wept a silent trickle, without a sigh or sob.
Winterborne took her other hand.

"What has happened ?" he said.
"He has come." There was a stillness as of death, till Winterborne asked, "You mean this, Grace--that I am to help you to get away ?" "Yes," said she.