And let me tell you at once, we are not much alike now--whatever we have been in the past.
Here, don't faint! Sit down!" He shifted his hand from her shoulder to her elbow, and supported her to a chair.

But she remained upon her feet, her white face upraised, gazing at him--gazing at him.
"Not Guy! Not Guy!" She said it over and over as if to convince herself.

Then: "But where is Guy ?" She clutched at his arm desperately, for all her world was shaking.

"Are you going to tell me he is--dead ?" "No." Burke Ranger spoke with steady eyes looking straight into hers.

"He is not." "Then why--then why--" She could get no further.