"And leave his house as bare as your hand? There's nothing in it that isn't precious." At the sight of him two fresh waves passed quickly across her heart, one at the heels of the other. The first was an instant perception that this encounter was not an accident; the second a consciousness as prompt that the best place for it was the street. She knew before he told her that he had been to see her, and the next thing she knew was that he had had information from his mother. Her mind grasped these things while he said with a smile: "I saw only your back, but I was sure. I was over the way. I've been at your house."!

"She knows he would do anything to marry you." "My just giving everything back?"

"I've seen him but twice," said Fleda. "Why, legal, don't you know?—what he calls setting the lawyers at you." "I meant painful to myself," Fleda, with a slight impatience, explained.