There was a pathos, too, about the part played in it by Austin which touched her to the quick, and she reproached herself keenly for the injustice with which she had treated him in her unreasoning anger.
She felt a great lump come in her throat as he ceased speaking, and for a moment or two found it impossible to answer.

"A voice!" she uttered at last.

"What sort of a voice, Austin ?" "It sounded like a woman's," he replied..