We had not traveled a mile before the tension relaxed about her lips, the downcast eyelids lifted, and I saw, beyond any peradventure of doubt, a lighter spirit.

Then I relaxed myself, for I had keyed up every nerve to make myself strong for this undertaking.

I lay back with closed eyes, weary, aching, in more pain than I wanted them to discover.

And I thought and thought.
Miss Sampson had said to me: "Russ, it'll all come right.

I can tell you now what you never guessed.