What was there for her to do but to follow the lamp he held up to guide her feet--the lamp which now shed its glad effulgence over both?
So they talked on, discussing various ways and means, new ties born of a deeper understanding binding them the closer--these two, who, as they sometimes whispered to each other, were "enlisted for life," ready to meet it side by side, whatever the day developed.
Before they parted, she promised again to go and see Corinne and cheer her up.

"She cannot be left alone, Jack, with this terrible thing hanging over her," she urged, "and you must meet Garry when he returns to-night.

Then we can learn what he has done--perhaps he will have fixed everything himself." But though Jack went to the station and waited until the arrival of the last train had dropped its passengers, there was no sign of Garry.

Nor did Ruth find Corinne.

She had gone to the city, so the nurse said, with Mr.Minott by the early train and would not be back until the next day.