CHAPTER XIII

THE BITTER WATERS MADE SWEET “At last they have let me in! Why——!” Bryan stopped short in the middle of the low drawing-room. His sentence terminated with that little shocked exclamation. He felt that it might not be wise to be too much affected by the change he saw in her face. But she concluded it for him. “You think—that I have altered! It is true! I have grown older—years older since last week! You see! Even my hands are thinner!” He drew up a footstool close to her side, and smoothed the delicate white fingers…