ILLUSTRATIONS

Her dark, wet eyes seemed touched with smouldering fire		[Frontispiece]
“What I have seen,” Matravers said gravely, “I do not like”	Page	[15]
But nothing in her words or in his alluded to it	“	[25]
Her companion, who was intent upon the wine list, noticed nothing	“	[31]
“Friends,” she repeated, with a certain wistfulness in her tone	“	[65]
At half-past four his servant brought in a small tea equipage	“	[83]
With an old-fashioned courtesy ... he offered her his arm	“	[105]
There seemed to him something almost unearthly about this woman with her soft grey gown and marble face	“	[111]
Matravers was suddenly conscious of an odd sense of disturbance	“	[135]
“I can do it,” she assured him. “I believe you doubt my ability, but you need not”	“	[143]
“Do you know that man is driving me slowly mad?”	“	[149]
Matravers found himself wondering at this new and very natural note of domesticity in her	“	[169]
She did not answer him. But indeed there was no need	“	[173]
“I am compelled to tell you, and these gentlemen, that your statement is a lie!”	“	[191]
“You mean this!” he cried thickly. “Say it again—quick!”	“	[211]
Berenice was lying in a crumpled heap on the low couch	“	[233]
But there was no answer—there never could be any answer	“	[259]