And in two days' time my Gerald will be here, and I shall be safe--saved and happy for evermore--for evermore.

There, leave me! I would be alone and end my work." And she went back to her table and sat beside it, taking her pen to write, and Anne knew that she dare say no more, and turning, went slowly from the room, seeing for her last sight as she passed through the doorway, the erect and splendid figure at its task, the light from the candelabras shining upon the rubies round the snow-white neck and wreathed about the tower of raven hair like lines of crimson..