And how proud she was of him when she heard the others talking of the daring things he had done, and saw how they all looked up to him! But it was not enough.

And in the dulness and loneliness of her life out there on Merdoe, she enjoyed to the full, during these many weary years, her woman's privilege of suffering for the man she loved.
But it was not to be so always.

Brighter days--little as she now expected them--were still in store for her..