One wild question set his heart leaping within his breast.

"Was there truth in the dream ?" he asked himself; and while he was yet formulating the question, Clementina's breathing was suddenly arrested.

It seemed to him, too, from the little that he saw between his closed eyes, that she stiffened from head to foot.

She stood in that rigid attitude, very still.

Something new had plainly occurred, something that brought with it a shock of surprise.