He had ended his note with the words: "I do not think it can last long now, and I rather hope it won't.

It is very painful for her, as well as for me." And it had not lasted very long.

Seven weeks later Miss Farrow had read in the first column of the _Times_ the announcement: "Millicent, only daughter of the late George Fauncey, of Wyndfell Hall, Suffolk, and the beloved wife of Lionel Varick." She had been surprised at the addition of the word "beloved." Somehow it was not like the man she thought she knew so well to put that word in.
That was just over a year ago.

But when she had met Varick again she had seen with real relief that he was quite unchanged--those brief months of wedded life had not apparently altered him at all.

There was, however, one great difference--he was quite at ease about money.