It was only when you looked at me.

But for that look, I don't think I should have been here to-day." She shut up the photographs on a sudden, and drew her chair a little away from him.
"I hope," she said, "you have not so poor an opinion of me as to think I like to be flattered ?" Romayne answered with an earnestness that instantly satisfied her.
"I should think it an act of insolence to flatter you," he said.

"If you knew the true reason why I hesitated to accept Lady Loring's invitation--if I could own to you the new hope for myself that has brought me here--you would feel, as I feel, that I have been only speaking the truth.

I daren't say yet that I owe you a debt of gratitude for such a little thing as a look.

I must wait till time puts certain strange fancies of mine to the proof." "Fancies about me, Mr.Romayne ?" Before he could answer, the dinner bell rang.