"Yes."
"And lost it?"
"Yes."
For a moment her face was inscrutable.
"When did it happen?"
"I found out to-day that it was gone beyond hope of recovery."
"Then you haven't known it all along and kept it from me?"
"I was going to tell you as soon as I came up this afternoon, but the General was here."
"I am glad of that," she said quietly. "If you had kept anything from me and worried over it, it would have broken my heart."
"Sally, I have been a fool."