Now William turned and began to speak, but Billy interrupted.

She met her husband's gaze steadily.
"I will be down at once to get your dinner," she said quietly.

"Eliza will not come to-night.

Pete is dead." Bertram started forward with a quick cry.
"Dead! Oh, Billy! Then you were--_there!_ Billy!" But his wife did not apparently hear him.

She passed him without turning her head, and went on up the stairs, leaving him to meet the sorrowful, accusing eyes of William..