Please--please tell her that when you thank her for me," was Robin's quite yearning little appeal.

She held out her hand to him for the first time in her life.

"Thank you, Lord Coombe, for so kindly delivering her beautiful message." His perfect manner did not record any recognition on his part of the fact that she had done an unexpected thing.

But as he went on his way he was thinking of it.
"She is very happy for some reason," he thought.

"Perhaps the rush and excitement of her new work exalts her.