And she--she has lost nothing: it was too late." "I did what I could." "Yes, my darling, and you were right.

But she was too old; she could not understand." He paused.
"Euthanasia ?" he whispered with something very like tenderness.
She nodded.
"Yes," she said; "just as the last agony began.

She resisted, but I knew you would wish it." They talked together for an hour in the garden before Oliver went to his room; and he began to tell her presently of all that had passed.
"He has refused," he said.

"We offered to create an office for Him; He was to have been called Consultor, and he refused it two hours ago.

But He has promised to be at our service....