But she would keep him coldly at a distance.

She would never unbend.

She would never forgive.
Next to the column recording her departure she had noted a few paragraphs giving the progress of the police in their search for James Preston, the forger of the Jefferson letters.

What a fool Judge Harvey had been in that affair!...
And yet, in a way, she was sorry.

She had liked Judge Harvey; had liked him very much.