Denham would not refuse the subject. Anything at that moment was better than questions as to Roy. A slight movement checked her.
"No," he said very low. "I heard, while at Valenciennes. That is—at an end."
"Not—you and Polly! You do not mean that she will not wait!"
"She is so young. It could not be the same to her—as to—"
"But you do not know this for a certainty."
"She was engaged—months ago—to Captain Peirce."
Mrs. Baron understood now, only too well, the change in Ivor's looks on his return to Verdun, the dangerous illness, and the tardy convalescence.
"And—that broke you down."
"I suppose it helped."
"Did Polly herself write?"