He understood her as well as if she had spoken; but, except that faint and transient flush, it never moved him.

He told them stories throughout dinner of his adventures as a medical student in Germany, and every one laughed except Kate.

She could not laugh; the laughter of the others irritated her.

His words going up the avenue rang in her ears; the pale, troubled face of the seamstress was before her eyes.

Something in the girl's sad, joyless face had interested her from the first.