I shall write and ask myself to dinner." He took her outside and rang the bell for the elevator.

They stood for a moment in front of the steel gate.
"I am afraid," he said quietly, "that in your heart you must think me an ungrateful beast." "Yes!" she answered, "I suppose I do! But then all men are ungrateful, and there are worse things even than ingratitude." The lift shot up and the door was swung back.

There was no time for any further adieux.

Norris Vine walked slowly back into his office, with his hands clasped behind his back..