Shall you persuade her to come out of that, do you think, Aldous ?" "No!" said Raeburn, cheerfully.

"Her sympathies and convictions go with them." Then, as they passed through the village, he began to talk of quite other things--college friends, a recent volume of philosophical essays, and so on.

Hallin, accustomed and jealously accustomed as he was to be the one person in the world with whom Raeburn talked freely, would not to-night have done or said anything to force a strong man's reserve.

But his own mind was full of anxiety..