She let it drop as if dead by her side.
"Now tell me all that happened," she said.

"I'm strong enough to bear it.
I feel such a woman now--so wise and calm.

These few weeks have made me grow from a girl into a woman all at once.

There's nothing I daren't hear, if you'll tell me it, Felix." Felix took up her hand again and held it in his, as he narrated the whole story of his visit to the Frenchman.

When Muriel had heard it, she said once more, slowly, "I don't think there's any hope in all these wild plans of playing off superstition against superstition.