For a little while, in the drawing-room, she talked excitedly, laughed a great deal, even at Monty Carfax's jokes.
She knew that they were all thinking that she was pleased because she had been with Roddy. She did not care what their thoughts were.
At last in her room she cried to Lucy—"Pull the curtains tight—Tighter—Tighter—Those stars—they'll get through anything."
When at last Lucy was gone she lit her candle and lay there, hearing the clocks strike the hours, wondering when the day would come.
CHAPTER XIII
DEFIANCE OF THE TIGER—II
I
Roddy, dozing after a night of glorious sleep, lay on his back and swung happily to and fro.