"Don't go away.
I am all right now.

I was quite dazed at Stephen's sudden appearance.

I thought that perhaps he had--had----Ah, I scarcely know what I thought.
How did you come here--why did you come here ?" She had turned to her husband.

In spite of her manifestation of affection,--the result of a certain relief which she experienced at that moment,--there was a note of something akin to indignation in her voice.
"It is very simple, my dear," replied her husband.

His curiously sallow face had resumed its usual expressionless appearance.