I hardly think it will pay.

Where are they now ?" "At Saratoga," Ethelyn replied; but her voice was not the same which had addressed Richard first; there was a coldness, a constraint in it now, as if her good resolution had been thrown back upon her and frozen up the impulse prompting her to the right.
Richard had had his chance with Ethelyn and lost it.

But he did not know it, or guess how sorry and disappointed she was when at last she left him and retired to her sleeping-room.

There was a window open in the parlor, and as the wind was rising with a sound of rain, Richard went to close it ere following his wife.

The window was near to the piano and as he shut it something rattled at his feet.