She knew, oh, she knew so well, that she could have helped him best.

Many a noble woman has known it as she stood aside.
In the meantime Tommy had gone home in several states of mind--reckless, humble, sentimental, most practical, defiant, apprehensive.

At one moment he was crying, "Now, Grizel, now, when it is too late, you will see what you have lost." At the next he quaked and implored the gods to help him out of his predicament.

It was apprehension that, on the whole, played most of the tunes, for he was by no means sure that Grizel would not look upon the affair of the glove as an offer of his hand, and accept him.

They would show her the glove, and she would, of course, know it to be her own.