He felt, too, that he was not yet quite sure of his voice or even what to say.

As he hesitated she went on half playfully: "It seems hard that you had to come all the way here on such a bootless errand.

You haven't even seen your wife yet." The mention of his wife recalled him to himself, oddly enough, when Demorest's name had failed.

But very differently.

Out of his whirling consciousness came the instinctive feeling that he could not see her now.