CHAPTER XXV
THE TEST
The door of Myra’s sitting-room opened quietly, and Jim Airth came in.
She awaited him upon the couch, sitting very still, her hands folded in her lap.
The room seemed full of flowers, and of soft sunset light.
He closed the door, and came and stood before her.
For a few moments they looked steadily into one another’s faces.
Then Jim Airth spoke, very low.
“It is so good of you to see me,” he said. “It is almost more than I had ventured to hope. I am leaving England in a few hours. It would have been hard to go—without this. Now it will be easy.”