Eustace was the head of the family, and he and Isabel had been all in all to each other.

He felt her going more than I can possibly tell you, and scarcely a week after the news came he got his things together and went off in the yacht to South America to get over it by himself.

I stayed on at Oxford, but I made up my mind to go out to her in the vacation.

A few days after his going, I had a cable to say they were married.

A week after that, there came another cable to say that Everard was dead." "Oh!" Dinah drew a short, hard breath.