"We brought her down here and put her to bed.

She cried--oh, day and night!--she who never cried! We were afraid for her--afraid for the child that was coming." Millie Splay smiled wistfully.

"She had just two weeks with Harry.

They were married before he left for France in 'sixteen, and then had another week together in the January of 'seventeen at his house in the Clayford country.

That was all." Millie Splay was silent for a few minutes.