"She had such faith in him too.

Year after year she was expecting him to go back to her, and she kept me at arm's length, till at last she came to see that both our lives were being sacrificed to a miserable dream.

Well, it's my innings now, anyway.

And we are going to be superbly happy to make up for it." Again he flung out his arms with a wide gesture, and again out of the night there came a long roll of thunder that was like the menace of a tortured thing.

A flicker of lightning gleamed through the open door for a moment, and Conyers' dark face was made visible.