"Worse, worse! And do you leave me! You can do nothing! No one can do anything!" She had her own troubles, and to-day was almost sinking under them.

But this was not her way of bearing them.

She shrugged her shoulders contemptuously.

"Very well," she said, "I will go if I can do nothing." "Do ?" he cried vehemently.

"What can you do ?" And then, in the act of turning from him, she stood; so startling was the change, so marvellous the transformation which she saw come over his face.