She flung her arms around him and kissed him, and then before he could stop her sank to her knees at his feet, and taking his hand kissed it.

Harold was embarrassed beyond all thinking.

He tried to take away his hand, but she clung tight to it.
'No, no!' she cried.

'You saved my child!' Harold was a gentleman and a kindly one.

He said no word till she had risen, still holding his hand, when he said quietly: 'There! there! Don't cry.