She has loved me, in those old days--this is my security; for whom one has loved, one cannot betray." He stepped eagerly toward the door; at that moment it opened, and the Lady Edith entered.

She was very pale, but she walked with a firm step, and her carriage was full of grace and gentle dignity.

Her face was as sad as before.
Miles sprang forward, with a happy confidence, to meet her, but she checked him with a hardly perceptible gesture, and he stopped where he was.

She seated herself, and asked him to do likewise.

Thus simply did she take the sense of old comradeship out of him, and transform him into a stranger and a guest.