This second wife, her sort of stepmother, came and fetched her from La Sarthe Chase quite suddenly one day." "I cannot think of her in London," said John Derringham.

"Did she like it, do you think?
And was she changed ?" "Yes, very changed," Cora answered, and made her voice casual.

"She looked as if the joy of life had fled forever, and as if she were just getting through the time.

Perhaps she hated being with her step-family--people often do." Then she glanced at him stealthily as he stared out at the sea, while she thought: "I am sure some awful tragedy is here underneath; it is not only his broken ankle and his illness that has made him such a wreck.

I wish I could help them.