Through its silence hurried their pulses; through its significance her dazed young eyes looked out into a haze where nothing stirred except a phantom heart, beating, beating the reveille.

And the spell lay heavy on them both.
"I shall bear your image always.

You know it." She seemed scarcely to have heard him.
"There is no reason in what I say.

I know it.

Yet--I am destined never to forget you." She made no sign.
"Ailsa Paige," he said mechanically.
And after a long while, slowly, she looked down at him where he sat at her feet, his dark eyes fixed on space..