A faint cry of joy escaped me; I tried to hold out my feeble hands.
The other person who was approaching me was my husband! I looked at him eagerly.

He never looked at me in return.

With his eyes on the ground, with a strange appearance of confusion and distress in his face, he too moved away out of my sight.

The unknown man whom I had first noticed followed him out of the room.

I called after him faintly, "Eustace!" He never answered; he never returned.