But the formality of his silence was no mystery to her; and her response was silence as profound as the stillness in her soul.
But deep into her young heart something new had been born, faint fire, latent, unstirred; and her delicate lips rested one on the other in the sensitive curve of suspense; and her white fingers, often now interlinked, seemed tremulously instinct with the exquisite tension hushing body and soul in breathless accord as they waited in unison.
* * * * * Toward the end of March the special service battleship squadron of the North Atlantic fleet commenced testing Chaosite in the vicinity of the Southern rendezvous.

Both main and secondary batteries were employed.
Selwyn had been aboard the flag-ship for nearly a month.
In April the armoured ships left the Southern drill ground and began to move northward.

A destroyer took Selwyn across to the great fortress inside the Virginia Capes and left him there.

During his stay there was almost constant firing; later he continued northward as far as Washington; but it was not until June that he telegraphed Austin: "Government satisfied.

Appropriation certain next session.