Then he drew his friend to the car window and introduced him to Adelaide.

The man took off his hat.
"I was just telling your husband, Mrs.Farron, that I've been looking at offices in this building.

By the spring he and I will be neighbors." Adelaide just shut her eyes, and did not open them again until Vincent had got in beside her and she felt his arm about her shoulder.
"My poor darling!" he said.

"What you need is to go home and get some sleep." It was said in his old, cherishing tone, and she, leaning back, with her head against the point of his shoulder, felt that, black as it was, life for the first time since the night before had assumed its normal aspect again..