I had never seen such a look on her face before, nor can I conceive of one presenting a more extraordinary contrast to the few and commonplace words with which she bade me good evening.

I could not forget that look.

I continued to see those pinched features and burning eyes all the way home where I went to get my grip-sack, and I saw them all the way to the station, though my thoughts were with her sister and the joys I had planned for myself.

Man's egotism, Dr.Perry.I neither knew Adelaide nor did I know the girl whose love I had so over-estimated.

She failed me, Dr.Perry.I was met at the station not by herself, but by a letter--a few hurried lines given me by an unknown man--in which she stated that I had asked too much of her, that she could not so wrong her sister who had brought her up and done everything for her since her mother died.