She murmured some reply and hurried away, thinking that the poor young man would alter his tone presently.
He was joined at once by a gray whiskered gentleman, scrupulously dressed and mannered.

Trefusis introduced himself, and the physician looked at him with some interest.

Then he said: "You have arrived too late, Mr.Trefusis.All is over, I am sorry to say." "Was the long railway journey she took in this cold weather the cause of her death ?" Some bitter words that the physician had heard upstairs made him aware that this was a delicate question.

But he said quietly: "The proximate cause, doubtless.

The proximate cause." "She received some unwelcome and quite unlooked-for intelligence before she started.