Wayne had gone over to Colonel Leonard's for bridge.

Kate was to have gone too, but had pleaded fatigue.

The plea was not wholly hollow.

The last thirty hours had not been restful ones.
And now she was to go upstairs and do something which she did not know how to do, or why she was doing.

Sitting there alone in the library she grew serious in the thought that a game was something more than a game when played with human beings.
Not that seriousness robbed her of the charm that was her own.