"But tell me what it is.

Do Mrs.
Horncastle, please," he pleaded in his boyish fashion.

"Is it anything I can do?
Only say the word; only tell me SOMETHING!" But he had succeeded in partially removing the handkerchief, and so caught a glimpse of her wet eyes, in which a faint smile struggled out like sunshine through rain.

But they clouded again, although she didn't cry, and her breath came and went with the action of a sob, and her hands still remained against her flushed face.
"I was only going to talk to you of Kitty" (sob)--"but I suppose I'm weak" (sob)--"and such a fool" (sob) "and I got to thinking of myself and my own sorrows when I ought to be thinking only of you and Kitty." "Never mind Kitty," said Barker impulsively.

"Tell me about yourself--your own sorrows.