Rose watched her.

Lucy's eyes fastened themselves upon her, and something strange happened.

Either Lucy Ayres was a born actress, or she had become actually so imbued, through abnormal emotion and love, with the very spirit of the man that she was capable of projecting his own emotions and feelings into her own soul and thence upon her face.

At all events, she looked at Rose, and slowly Rose became bewildered.

It seemed to her that Horace Allen was looking at her through the eyes of this girl, with a look which she had often seen since their very first meeting.