Hush! No more talk!" With all my eyes and mind and heart and soul I watched to see if she shrank from me.

She was passive, yet tender as she smoothed my pillow and moved my head.

A dark abstraction hung over her, and it was so strange, so foreign to her nature.

No sensitiveness on earth could have equaled mine at that moment.

And I saw and felt and knew that she did not shrink from me.