"Let us go in there and sit down," he suggested.

"You must be tired--dear child." She hesitated and submitted.

"Yes, I am," she said.
Presently they were sitting on one of the long dark polished wooden benches in the quiet and the rich light the ages have left in this place, keeping a mutual moment of silence.

"How splendid it is!" Elfrida said restlessly, looking at the great carved wooden screen they had come through.
"The man who did that had a joy in his life, hadn't he?
To-day is very cheap and common, don't you think ?" He had hardly words to answer her vague question, so absorbed was he in the beauty and the grace and the interest with which she had suddenly invested the high-backed corner she sat in.

He felt no desire to analyze her charm.