If I were away altogether--oh, I can't explain, but I would not dare to go." Mannering seemed to have much to say--and said nothing.

This queer, pale-faced girl, with her earnest eyes and few simple words, had silenced him.

She was right--right at least from her own point of view.

A certain sense of shame suddenly oppressed him.

He was acutely conscious of his only half-admitted reason for this visit.