I have even dared to-night to tell you what I have kept secret for so long, my meeting with Harry Feversham and the peril he has run.

And why?
Because for the first time I have heard to-night just those signs for which I waited.

The new softness, the new pride, in your voice, the buoyancy in your laughter--they have been audible to me all this evening.

The restraint and the tension were gone from your manner.

And when you played, it was as though some one with just your skill and knowledge played, but some one who let her heart speak resonantly through the music as until to-night you have never done.
Ethne, Ethne!" But at that moment Ethne was in the little enclosed garden whither she had led Captain Willoughby that morning.