It was that." And after he had waited for her in silence for fully a minute she said in a low voice: "I was very lonely, very, very tired; he urged me; I had been crying.

I have seldom cried since.

It is curious, isn't it?
I can feel the tears in my eyes at night sometimes.

But they never fall." She passed her gloved hand slowly across her forehead and eyes.
"I--married him.

At first I did not know what to do; did not realise, understand.