7/12 I could give her no information--and I said so." "Let me offer you the information, Mr.Morris, before we say anything more. I have lost both my parents." Alban's momentary outbreak of irritability was at an end. He was earnest and yet gentle, again; he forgave her for not understanding how dear and how delightful to him she was. "Will it distress you," he said, "if I ask how long it is since your father died ?" "Nearly four years," she replied. "He was the most generous of men; Mrs. |