"It is all so sad," she faltered, "and you—you are so stern and changed."
"It is with me only as it is with the whole world," he told her.
"To-night, though, you have relieved me of one anxiety."
Her eyes once more were for a moment frightened.
"There was danger for poor little me?"
He nodded.
"It is past," he assured her.
"And it is you who have saved me," she murmured. "Ah, Mr. John," she added, as she walked with him to the door, "if ever there comes to me a lover, not for the days only but pour la vie, I hope that he may be an Englishman like you, whom all the world trusts."
He laughed and raised her fingers to his lips.
"Over-faithful, you called us once," he reminded her.
"But that was when I was a child," she said, "and in days like these we are children no longer."