While I--I will tell you the truth--I am glad.
When the news first came from Wadi Halfa that you were blind, I was glad; when I saw you in Hill Street, I was glad; ever since, I have been glad--quite glad.

Because I saw that she shrank.

From the beginning she shrank, thinking how her life would be hampered and fettered," and the scorn of Mrs.Adair's voice increased, though her voice itself was sunk to a whisper.

"I am not afraid," she said, and she repeated the words passionately again and again.

"I am not afraid.