It has been also my cross." Rollin's voice was so low on this last sentence that Rachel had difficulty in hearing him above the noise around them, But she knew what he had said.

She wanted to ask what his methods were.

But she did not know how to ask him.

Her interest in his plan was larger than mere curiosity.

Rollin Page was so different now from the fashionable young man who had asked her to be his wife that she could not help thinking of him and talking with him as if he were an entirely new acquaintance.
They had turned off the avenue and were going up the street to Rachel's home.