CHAPTER VI.
Betty Tosswill sat up in bed and told herself that it was Friday morning.
Then she remembered what it was that was going to happen to-day.
It was something that she had thought, deep in her heart, would never happen.

Godfrey Radmore was coming back--coming back into her life, and into all their lives.

Though everything seemed just the same as when he had left Old Place, everything was different, both in a spiritual and material sense.

The War had made a deep wound, nay, far more than one wound, in the spiritual body politic of Old Place.

And it was of a very material thing that Betty Tosswill thought first, and most painfully, this morning.