And when Calder had ended he looked again at Durrance, but now with a face of relief.

It seemed, too, that Durrance was relieved.
"After all, one has something to be thankful for," he cried.

"Think! Suppose that I had been engaged to her! She would never have allowed me to break it off, once I had gone blind.

What an escape!" "An escape ?" exclaimed Calder.
"You don't understand.

But I knew a man who went blind; a good fellow, too, before--mind that, before! But a year after! You couldn't have recognised him.