But I do not ask that person to speak.

That we may well spare him." He laid the ring on the table, not too near Arthur, not within reach of his hand, but close enough for him to see it.

Then he sat down, and hid his face in his hands.

The last few days had told on him.

He looked older, by ten years, than he had at the beginning of the month.
The silence which followed these words and this action, was memorable to everybody there concerned.