He has gone on to the Sporting Club for an hour and will probably be back in time to change for dinner." Violet sat quite still for several moments.

Something seemed to die slowly out of her face.

Presently she rose to her feet.
"I suppose," she said, "that I am very foolish to allow myself to be upset like this." "It is quite natural," Draconmeyer assured her soothingly.

"What you should try to do is to forget the whole circumstance.

You sit here brooding about it until it becomes a tragedy.