"I am sorry to have troubled you, Mr.
Delamayn.

I won't detain you any longer." He looked at her.

There was a tone in her voice that he had never heard before.

There was a light in her eyes that he had never seen in them before.

Suddenly and fiercely he reached out his hand, and stopped her.
"Where are you going ?" he asked.
She answered, looking him straight in the face, "Where many a miserable woman has gone before me.