And now--now she had in a few hours crossed the boundary between childhood and womanhood and she stood aghast, asking herself what she had done! By what means understanding had come to her she did not stay to question.

The tragic force of it overwhelmed all reasoning.

She knew beyond all doubting that she had made the most ghastly mistake of her life.

She had done it in blindness, but the veil had been rent away; and, horror-struck, she now beheld the accursed quicksand into which they had blundered.
"I say," said Jerry, "you're awfully tired, aren't you?
You're positively haggard.

I've got quite a decent little dinner for you, and I've done every blessed thing myself.