It was all a mystery; but we must wait and pray; and in time he managed to instil a faint hope into my mind that this might be so.
'Etta was rather kind to me just then.

She looked ill and worried, and seemed taken up with Giles.

It was well that he should have some one to look after his comforts, for there was a breach between us that seemed as though it would never be healed.

I saw that he was irritable and miserable,--that the thought of Eric robbed him of all peace.

But I could make no effort to console him, for I felt as though my heart was breaking.