Will you take me back to town in your machine ?" A pause, Craig's fierce gaze upon Grant, Grant's upon the ground.

Then Grant mumbled surlily: "Come on." When they were passing the front windows of the house Craig assumed that Margaret was hiding somewhere there, peering out at them.

But he was wrong.

She was in her room, was face down upon her bed, sobbing as if her first illusion had fallen, had dashed to pieces, crushing her heart under it..