I have a great many things to do before I go on Monday.

I am going away for a long time." She held on to the banisters for a minute, but the shadows were so deceiving, with all the black oak, that he was not sure what her expression said.

Her words were a very low "Thank you--I will try to sleep.

Good night." And she went up to her room, and Tristram went on, downstairs--a deeper ache than ever in his heart..