Had he really declared himself overnight, and had she actually accepted him?
A new load seemed to rest upon her shoulders, a new anxiety, a new care; and as if to confirm my idea, she started and changed colour as I came up.
"I didn't see you in church," she remarked, in her own natural fashion, when we had exchanged the ordinary salutations.
"I am afraid you wouldn't expect to see me, Mrs.Lascelles." "Well, as a matter of fact, I didn't, but I suppose," added Mrs.
Lascelles, as her rich voice fell into a pensive (but not a pathetic) key, "I suppose it is you who are much more surprised at seeing me.

I can't help it if you are, Captain Clephane.

I am not really a religious person.

I have not flown to that extreme as yet.

But it has been a comfort to me, sometimes; and so, sometimes, I go." It was very simply said, but with a sigh at the end that left me wondering whether she was in any new need of spiritual solace.