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Kitty Feels the Heartache.
Linley advanced a few steps--and stopped.
His wife, hurrying eagerly to meet him, checked herself.

It might have been distrust, or it might have been unreasoning fear--she hesitated on the point of approaching him.
"I have something to say, Catherine, which I'm afraid will distress you." His voice faltered, his eyes rested on her--then looked away again.

He said no more.
He had spoken a few commonplace words--and yet he had said enough.
She saw the truth in his eyes, heard the truth in his voice.

A fit of trembling seized her.