"You were good to come, but you must not go further than Mercer." Then she noticed that the window beside Lois was open, and leaned forward to close it.

After that, she lapsed again into her stony silence.
When they reached the station, it was she who bought the ticket, and then again seemed startled to find the girl by her side.

"Good-by," she said, as Lois kissed her, but there was no change in her face, either of relief or regret, when her cousin left her.
How that long slow journey passed Helen never knew.

She was not even conscious of its length.

When Gifford met her, she gave him one questioning look.
"Yes," he said tenderly, "you are in time.