"As you wish." A week afterwards O'Connell arrived in London.

They met in Mrs.
Wrexford's little drawing-room in Mayfair.
They looked at each other for some moments without speaking.

Both noted the fresh lines of suffering in each other's faces.

They had been through the long valley of the shadow of sorrow since they had last met.

But O'Connell thought, as he looked at her, that all the suffering he had gone through passed from him as some hideous dream.