Perhaps I can help you to stand this life a little better if I tell you that--mine is every bit as hard." She turned to him eyes that were filled with gratitude.

Her whole body seemed to be touched with some new glow.

Into the heart of their consciousness of the situation that had arisen between them there came, sharply, the sound of a shutting door.

Then steps in the hall.
"That's Rupert," she said.
They both rose as he came into the room.

He stood back in the shadow for a moment as though surprised at Olva's presence.