"It will not be dawn for many hours."
"Why, what time do you think it is? It is nearly four."
Nearly four! Then he had slept right through the night so soundly that on waking he thought he had only dozed.
"You will not go? Tell me you will not go?" she whispered, and he felt her hands touch him lightly.
He drew back, fearful lest her fascination again overmastered him.
"Show me which way they went," he said brusquely, as he walked to the steps leading down from the verandah.
As he reached them he turned. Mrs. Burke had drawn back into the shadow beyond the open window.
"Will you show me which way they went?" he repeated.
He saw her hide her face in her hands, and the sound of a choked sob came to him. In a moment he was at her side.
She shrank to the wall as he approached, raising her head and shaking back the loose locks which streamed across her face.