"Thank Heaven she has already gone up to dress," he said to himself.

A marriage between Joan Whitworth and the Harry Luttrell of to-day, the man freed now from the great obsession of his life and trained now to the traditional paths, was a fitting thing, a thing to be welcomed.

Hillyard readily acknowledged it.

But he had more insight into the troubled soul of Stella Croyle than any one else in that company.
"No one's bothering about her," he reflected.

"She came here to set up her last fight to win back Harry.