I knew for what he watched--but Ruth's shamed face was all human; on it was no shadow nor trace of that alien soul which so few hours since had threatened us.
"Yes," she nodded, "I remember that.

And I remember how Norhala repaid them.

I remember that I was glad, fiercely glad, and then I was tired--so tired.

And then--I come to the rubbed-out place," she ended perplexedly.
Deliberately, almost banally had I not realized his purpose, he changed the subject.

He held her from him at arm's length.
"Ruth!" he exclaimed, half mockingly, half reprovingly.