But I am made differently.

Life has taught me; it is in my blood and bone to stop and question, to look so long that at last I lose the will to choose, or to leap.

There are some of us like that, you know." "Perhaps," she smiled.

"I don't know.

It seems to me a very silly way to be." The song had gone out of her voice, and a heaviness, an impalpable fear, had descended again on her heart.