discovered'."

She returned his smile. "You know as much as I know. I
promise you that."

He wavered, as if for the first time uncertain how far he
might go. "I don't know Darrow as much as you know him," he
presently risked.

She frowned a little. "You said just now we didn't need to
say things"

"Was I speaking? I thought it was your eyes----" He
caught her by both elbows and spun her halfway round, so
that the late sun shed a betraying gleam on her face.
"They're such awfully conversational eyes! Don't you suppose
they told me long ago why it's just today you've made up
your mind that people have got to live their own lives--even
at Givre?"



XI


"This is the south terrace," Anna said. "Should you like to
walk down to the river?"

She seemed to listen to herself speaking from a far-off airy
height, and yet to be wholly gathered into the circle of