Chapter 63

That last phrase stayed in Ross's memory. Had she herself been in imminent danger of growing hard, and was her coming up here to be a means of keeping from it? Anyhow, as she saw Miss Hallam disappear with a wave of her hand from the motor bus which was taking her to the train, Ross was somehow strangely reconciled to the thought that she couldn't go herself. XXXIII LETTERS ... _Now letters look innocent enough, but there's seldom any knowing what they contain--if addressed to other people. Once in a while …