He heard her breathing rapidly.
"Good-night," he said in a husky tone.

"I'll be so glad, my dear, so glad." For answer she gave him a hurried smile, a glance from her bright restless eyes.

Then he went heavily from the room.
* * * * * At home he found Deborah sitting alone, with a pile of school papers in her lap.

As he entered she slowly turned her head.
"How is Edith ?" she asked him.

Roger told of his visit uptown, and spoke of Edith's anxiety over getting the children up to the farm.
"I'll take them myself," said Deborah.
"But how can you get away from school ?" "Oh, I think I can manage it.