"I think--my back--is broken....

You'll be free--soon." Glenn gave a terrible start and his face turned a deathly white.

He burst out with quavering, inarticulate speech.
Carley gazed up at him and then closed her eyes.

She could not look at him while carrying on such deceit.

Yet the sight of him and the feel of him then were inexpressibly blissful to her.