It will never do for him to risk getting another taste of malaria--tell him so, will you?
Good-bye." "Yes, I will tell him." And Jocelyn Gordon walked slowly back to tell the man she loved that he must go away from her and never come back.

The last few days had been days of complete happiness.

There is no doubt that women have the power of enjoying the present to a greater degree than men.

They can live in the bliss of the present moment with eyes continually averted from the curtain of the near future which falls across that bliss and cuts it off.

Men allow the presence of the curtain to mar the present brightness.
These days had been happier for Jocelyn than for Jack, because she was conscious of the fulness of every moment, while he was merely rejoicing in comfort after hardship, in pleasant society after loneliness.