"It's over.

Even if you had been true to me, and I loved you still--I would have been compelled to break our engagement." "You would! And why ?" "I am a physical wreck--and a mental one, too, I fear....

Helen, I've come home to die." "Daren!" she cried, poignantly.
Then he told her in brief, brutal words of the wounds and ravages war had dealt him, and what Doctor Bronson's verdict had been.

Lane felt shame in being so little as to want to shock and hurt her, if that were possible.
"Oh, I'm sorry," she burst out.

"Your mother--your sister....