So while the two incapables were sedulously covering up their tracks, the most placid indifference as to their whereabouts reigned in Nunsmere.
The telegram, therefore, announcing their marriage found Zora entirely unprepared for the news it contained.

What a pitiful tragedy lay behind the words she was a million miles from suspecting.

She walked with her head above such clouds, her eyes on the stars, taking little heed of the happenings around her feet--and, if the truth is to be known, finding mighty little instruction or entertainment in the firmament.

The elopement, for it was nothing more, brought her eyes, however, earthwards.

"Why ?" she asked, not realizing it to be the most futile of questions when applied to human actions.