Chapter 20

They sat down, presently, in the two big leather chairs, opposite each other. "Well?" queried David. "Want the truth?" "Nothing but the truth." "I feel," considered Ross, "as though I were out of the world, in some sort of place halfway between heaven and hell, where nothing could possibly happen." "Whew-w!" whistled David. "And yet," she finished, "where it's perfectly heavenly to be--for a time, anyhow." "That last doesn't help it much. In other words, you're no recluse. Probably you're homesick this minute for T…