I have no place anywhere at all." Violet Oliver stood up and faced him.
"I must be going.

I must find my friends," she said, and as he took her hand, she added, "I am so very sorry." The words, she felt, were utterly inadequate, but no others would come to her lips, and so with a trembling smile she repeated them.

She drew her hand from his clasp and moved a step or two away.

But he followed her, and she stopped and shook her head.
"This is really good-bye," she said simply and very gravely.
"I want to ask you a question," he explained.

"Will you answer it ?" "How can I tell you until you ask it ?" He looked at her for a moment as though in doubt whether he should speak or not.