That had been the chink in her armour, and through that she had been pierced again and again, till she was vanquished at last.
She felt too weary now, too utterly overwhelmed by circumstances, to care what happened.

Yes, she would cable to Guy as she had said.

But her confidence was gone.

She was convinced already that no word would come back in answer out of the void that had swallowed him, She went through the evening as one in a dream.

People offered her laughing congratulations, and she never knew how she received them.
She seemed to be groping her way through an all-enveloping mist of despair.
One episode only stood out clearly from all the rest, and that was when all were assembled at supper and out of the gay hubbub she caught the sound of her own name.