" After seeing the children, they sat down, alone now, in the drawing room, to coffee.

Anna took the tray, and then pushed it away from her.

"Dolly," she said, "he has told me.

" Dolly looked coldly at Anna; she was waiting now for phrases of conventional sympathy, but Anna said nothing of the sort.

"Dolly, dear," she said, "I don't want to speak for him to you, nor to try to comfort you; that's impossible.