"She had walked away for a while and didn't notice that the carriages were leaving.

When she came back the coupe waiting for me was the only one left." Sibyl regarded him with dilating eyes.

She spoke with a slow breathlessness.

"And she drove home from Jim's funeral--with you!" Without warning she burst into laughter, clapped her hand ineffectually over her mouth, and ran back uproariously into the house, hurling the door shut behind her..