She burst into tears, hiding her face against his shoulder in her distress.
"But how dreadful! Oh, how dreadful! He is killing himself.

I think--the Guy--I knew--is dead already." "No, he isn't," Burke said, and he held her with sudden closeness as he said it.

"He isn't--and that's the hell of it.

But you can't save him.

No one can." She lifted her face sharply.