I do not think you should give him up." She listened eagerly.

Was it my fancy, or was she indeed a little paler?
Her eyes seemed to gleam with a strange softness in the twilight.

Her head drooped a a little as she resumed her former thoughtful attitude.
"Thank you," she said, simply.

"I believe that you are right." I caught up a bundle of papers from my desk and stole softly from the room.

Ray was close at hand, and I called to him.
"She is in there waiting for you," I said.