Nothing else." The waiter bowed and hurried off.

The woman played with her fan but her fingers were shaking.
"I fear," he remarked, "that my coming is rather a shock to you.

I am sorry to see you looking so distressed." "It is not that," she answered with some show of courage.

"You know me too well to believe me capable of seeking a meeting which I feared.

It is the strange thing which has happened to you during these last few months--this last year.