Her head was bent, but she raised it as he turned, and though her lips smiled, there was a look of great trouble in her eyes.

Durrance was a man like another.

His first thought was whether there was not some obstacle which would hinder her from compliance, even though she herself were willing.
"There is your father," he said.
"Yes," she answered, "there is my father too.

I could not leave him." "Nor need you," said he, quickly.

"That difficulty can be surmounted.