"No!" she cried out to him, on a sudden, in her sore need, "don't leave me! Come back to me!" He obeyed her in silence.

In silence, on her side, she pointed to the chair near her.

He took it.

She looked at him, and checked herself again; resolute to make her terrible confession, yet still hesitating how to begin.

Her woman's instinct whispered to her, "Find courage in his touch!" She said to him, simply and artlessly said to him, "Give me encouragement.