The girl's eyes were of a deep blue and were entirely without scar or other evidence of blindness, except that they did not seem to see.

I afterward learned that her affliction had come upon her as the result of illness when she was a child.

She was niece to the Earl of Derby, and Dorothy's mother had been her aunt.

She owned a small estate and had lived at Haddon Hall five or six years because of the love that existed between her and Dorothy.

A strong man instinctively longs to cherish that which needs his strength, and perhaps it was the girl's helplessness that first appealed to me.