Try if you can persuade him." "_I_ am not likely to have any influence, Adelaide." The tone in which she replied struck Romayne.

He looked at her.

Her eyes, gravely meeting his eyes, held him with a strange fascination.

She was not herself conscious how openly all that was noble and true in her nature, all that was most deeply and sensitively felt in her aspirations, spoke at that moment in her look.

Romayne's face changed: he turned pale under the new emotion that she had roused in him.