There was her Cheiron, who would help her to get news.

But of course she would hear, and all would be well.
Thus she was enabled to unfreeze a little to her stepfather's wife, who, as they said good-by at the creaking fly's door, felt some of her soft charm.
"Perhaps she is shy," she said to herself as she rolled towards the station.

"Anyway, it is restful, after Mabel's laying down the law." That night Halcyone took her goddess to the little summer house upon the second terrace.
"If I start with John to-morrow, my sweet," she said, "you will come with me as I have promised you.

But if I must go to that great, restless city, to find him, then you will wait for me here--safe in your secret home." And then she looked out over the misty clover-grown pleasance to the country beyond bathed in brilliant moonlight.

And something in the beauty of it stilled the wild ache in her heart.