“Where have you come from?” asked Cosmo.

“From Cairntod, the place I came from that wild winter night,” answered Joan.

“But you are.... when were you.... how long.... have you been married?”

Married! ” echoed Joan. “Cosmo, how could you!”

She looked up in his face wild and frightened.

“Well, you never wrote! and—”

“It was you never wrote!”

I did not, but my father did, and got no answer.”

“I wrote again and again, and begged for an answer, but none came. If it hadn’t been for the way I dreamed about you, I don’t know what would have become of me!”

“The devil has been at old tricks, Joan!”