"I will talk to your brother.

We did have words, I'll admit, last night, but there wasn't the slightest reason why it should have upset him in this way.

Things in the city were shocking yesterday, but they have improved a great deal to-day.

Let me go upstairs and I'll try and pump some courage into him." "You are so kind," she murmured, suddenly dropping her hands from before her face and looking up at him with shining eyes, "so very kind.

Will you come, then ?" She rose and he followed her out of the room, up the stairs, and into a tiny bedroom.