Perhaps you will tell me if you have news.

Will you ?" She leaned against the table wearily, holding her letter.
"Let me read your letter first," he said wilfully.
A mist seemed to come before her eyes; but she was schooled to self-command, and he did not see he had given her a shock.

Her first impulse was to hand the letter over at once; then there came the remembrance of all it contained, all it suggested.

Would he see all it suggested?
She recalled the words Lacey had used regarding a service which David had once done her.

If Eglington asked, what could she say?
It was not her secret alone, it was another's.