Therefore, on this certain morning, she knew his voice, when, after stopping his car in the dooryard, he called out to the men before he approached the door of her own home.

It was then that Mary Gage did something which she never yet had done when she had heard the step and voice of her lawful lord and master--something she had not done since her arrival here.
Blind, she turned unconsciously to the mirror which she knew Annie had hung on the wall! She smoothed back her hair, felt for the corners of her collar to make it neat.

She really did not know that she did these things.
She was young.

Life was still buoyant in her bosom, after all, and far more now than at any time in her life.

New graciousness of face and figure began to come to her.