There will be a next time, and I am bound to win you yet, in spite of all and everything." She looked at him with a half-frightened, half-hysterical light in her eyes.

"God knows!" "And you will be frank with me then, and tell me all ?" "Yes, yes, another time; but go now." She had extinguished the candle, turned the handle of the door noiselessly, and was holding it open.

A faint light stole through the dark passage.

She drew back hastily.
"You have left the front door open," she said in a frightened voice.

"I thought you had shut it behind me," he returned quickly.