"How long do you expect to remain in Manila ?" "But a very short time," she said simply.
"And I shall have to stay there for years, I suppose," he returned slowly.

His eyes came to hers for a second and then went back to the stretch of water like a flash.

That brief glance troubled her greatly.
Her heart trembled with pity for the man beside her, even though speculation wrought the emotion.
In her stateroom that night she lay, dry-eyed and wakeful, her inward cry being: "It is a crime to have wounded this innocent man.

Why must he be made to suffer ?" She could not tell Hugh of her discovery, for she knew that he would be unreasonable, perhaps do or say something which would make the wound more painful.

During the days that followed Veath was as pleasant, as genial, as gallant as before; none but Grace observed the faint change in his manner.