For the first time she felt something stir in her stunned mind--as if thought were wakening--fear--a vague quaking.

Her wan small face began to wonder and in the dark roundness of her eyes a question was to be seen like a drowned thing slowly rising from the deeps of a pool.

But she asked no question.

She only waited a few moments and let him look at her until she said at last in a voice as near a whisper as his own.
"I--will believe you.".