I will go down by to-night's train--I've just time to catch it." He glanced at his watch with an assumption of cheerfulness.

"When you wake up in the morning I shall be in Cornwall." "I shall not sleep," she said, in a miserable broken voice.

"I shall lie awake, thinking of you." He caught her swiftly in his arms, and kissed her on the lips.

"If I find out the truth, nothing shall come between us then, Sisily ?" "No, nothing," she said.
He turned with a sudden swift movement as though to go, but she still held him.
"Tell Thalassa ...

that I ask him to tell you the truth, if he knows it...." She released him then, and stood looking after him as he walked from the room and out of the house..