You are better now ?" He helped her gently to rise.

They stood face to face in the dim candlelight, and his eyes looked into hers with such friendly concern that again she had it not in her heart to be other than kind.
"I am quite well," she assured him.

"Please forget my foolishness! Tell me what it was you played just now!" "That last thing ?" he said.

"Surely you know that! It was Handel's _Largo_." She started.

"Of course! I remember now! But--I've never heard it played like that before." A very strange smile crossed his face.