As he came near, she turned and held out one hand.
'All right ?' he inquired, shaking it heartily, as if it had been a man's.
A sweet low voice answered him.
'Yes--all right,' it said, as if nothing could ever be wrong with its possessor.

'But you ?' it asked directly afterwards, in a tone of sympathetic anxiety.
'I?
Oh--well--' Mr.Van Torp's incomplete answer might have meant anything, except that he too was 'all right.' 'Yes,' said the lady gravely.

'I read the telegram the next day.

Did you get my cable?
I did not think you would sail.' 'Yes, I got your cable.

Thank you.