Mrs.Adair drew up the blinds of the drawing-room, opened the window, and let the moonlight in; and then, as she saw Ethne unlocking the case of her violin, she went out on to the terrace.

She felt that she could not sit patiently in her company.

So that when Durrance entered the drawing-room he found Ethne alone there.

She was seated in the window, and already tightening the strings of her violin.
Durrance took a chair behind her in the shadows.
"What shall I play to you ?" she asked.
"The Musoline Overture," he answered.

"You played it on the first evening when I came to Ramelton.