With a low cry he took a swift step toward her.
"Alice!" Instantly the girl was on her feet.

But it was not toward him that she turned.

It was away--resolutely, and with a haste that was strangely like terror.
Alice, too, had forgotten, for just a moment.

She had let herself drift into a dream world where there was nothing but the music she was playing and the man she loved.

Then the music had stopped, and the man had spoken her name.
Alice remembered then.