"What has happened ?" she said.
"Quick! Tell me! Don't you want to--marry me ?" He took her hand.

She saw that in some fashion he was moved, though still she could not understand.

"I'm trying to tell you," he said; "but--to be honest--you've hit me in the wind, and I don't know how.

I think you have forgotten in all these years what Guy was like." She gazed at him blankly.

Again Jeffcott's words were running in her mind.