She was certain that she had found the solution of the troubles of Shiel and Mona Crozier, for Crozier would now have his fortune, and the return to his wife was a matter of course.

Was she altogether sure?
But yes, she was altogether sure.

She remembered, with a sudden, swift plunge of blood in her veins, that early dawn when she bent over him as he lay beneath the tree, and as she kissed him in his sleep he had murmured, "My darling!" That had not been for her, though it had been her kiss which had stirred his dreaming soul to say the words.

If they had only been meant for her, then--oh, then life would be so much easier in the future! If--if she could only kiss him again and he would wake and say-- She got to her feet with an involuntary exclamation.

For an instant she had been lost in a world of her own, a world of the impossible.
"I almost thought I heard a step in the other room," she said in explanation to Mona.