And now probing by her questions as to details here and there, with Nourse helping at her side, she revealed Joe's weakness to himself.

A scared angry look came into his eyes.

Stubbornly he worked on and on, but the thing would not come as it used to! And this revealing process continued until Nourse with masculine pity dropped out of the torturing and went home.

But Ethel gently encouraged Joe, and in his dogged persistency he kept at it half the night.

The more tired he grew, the worse was his work.