I am very sorry." Sylvia did not deny the implication of the words that "troubles" had come.

She turned to him, grateful that he should so clearly have remembered what she had said upon that day.
"Thank you," she answered, gently.

"My father would like to know you.

I wrote to you that I had come to live with him." "Yes." "You were surprised ?" she asked.
"No," he answered, quietly.

"You came to some important decision on the very top of the Aiguille d'Argentiere.