Then if you will, you can drive the roadster back to our garage." [Illustration: Devoted Love Shone in Her Clear Gray Eyes.] "I will," acquiesced Grace briefly.

A swift rush of unbidden emotion brought her very near to tears.

Accompanying Tom to the door, she watched him wistfully down the walk.

She was forcibly reminded of a day, belonging to the past, when she had seen him go down that same walk, and, as she then believed, out of her life.

On that dark rainy afternoon of the long ago she had felt only pity as she gazed after his retreating form.