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as perfectly natural, and she had no sick-roo

"The nurse thinks she is coht she ought to see a faood for him Her cheerful

matter-of-factness her competent sanity, restored his belief in a world

that had seemed only chaos and death How much, he wondered later, had

Mrs Haverford suspected? He had not been in any condition to act

a part But whatever she suspected he kneas locked in her kindly

breast

Audrey ain

Mrs Haverford had gone out

So it was that Audrey came back to him, and to him alone She asked no

questions She only lay quite still on her white pillows, and looked

at him Even when he knelt beside her and drew her toward hi, but she lifted her uninjured hand and softly caressed his bent

head Clayton never knehether Mrs Haverford had come back and seen

that or not He did not care, for that matter It seemed to him just

then that all the world must knoas so vitally important, so

transcendently wonderful