About eight o'clock she heard Toyner's step.
Was he going to haunt the house again in order to keep her from going out of it?
He came up to the door and came in.
She was preparing herself to act just as if she did not know who had come, and did not take much notice of him; but when he came up and she looked at his face in the lamp-light, she saw written in it the struggle that he had gone through.

Its exact nature and detail she was incapable of conceiving, but one glance proved to her its reality.

She was struck by the consciousness of meeting an element in life which was wholly new to her.

When such a thing forces itself upon our attention, however indefinite and unexpressed may be our thought, it is an experience never to be forgotten.

Ann fought against her conviction.