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Clementina was silent; her driver was no ether on the road to Italy That ean's

confession of fear had procured them some respite held them in a stiff

constraint They were conscious of it as of a tide engulfing theht come of speech The ht, as it seemed to

both, be the spark to fire a un to talk, whither the talk would lead; but they were

very much afraid, and they sat very still lest a movement of the one

should provoke a question in the other She knew his secret, and he was

aware that she knew it She could not have found it even then in her

heart to part willingly with her knowledge She had thought over- the last day She had withdrawn herself into it from the

company of her fellow-travellers, as into a private chaan have desired, now that she had the

knowledge, to deprive her of it, but he knew it instinctively for a

dangerous thing He drove on in silence while the stars paled in the

heavens and a grey, pure light crept es of

the world, and the an

suddenly drew in the reins and stopped the cart