May I be favoured with yours ?" He handed her a card and scribbled a telephone number upon it.

They were in the station now, and their baggage in the hands of separate porters.
She walked slowly down the platform by his side.
"Will you allow me to say," he ventured, "how sorry I am--for all this ?" The slight uncertainty of his speech pleased her.

She looked up at him with infinite regret.

As they neared the barrier, she held out her hand.
"I, too, am more sorry than I can tell you;" she said a little tremulously.

"Whatever may come, that is how I feel myself.