18/18 Lord Walderhurst has not seen it." Life began to come back to her. She had been so horribly bewildered as to think at moments that perhaps it might be that a man who was very much absorbed in affairs-- "The information you sent him is the most important, and moving, a man in his position could receive." "Do you think so, _really_ ?" She lifted her head with new courage and her colour returned. It is, I assure you, _impossible_, Lady Walderhurst." "I am so thankful," she said devoutly. "I am so _thankful_ that I have told you." Anything more touching and attractive than her full eyes and her grown-up child's smile he felt he had never seen.. |