"You knew it!"
"Several days ago."
"Why, who told you?"
"You both told me."
"We both told you!" exclaimed nurse and patient as they stared first at each other, then at the doctor.
"Some days ago," said Dr. Gladwin, with a serious face and impressive manner, "a certain nurse was waiting for me at my office—early in the morning. She told me she had discovered the identity of a certain patient. Her voice was tremulous. One hand she pressed tight against her heart to silence its beating. She knew, as I did, that loud reverberations might awaken sleeping neighbors. She had eyes. Possibly you have noticed those eyes, Mr. Alton."
"I live in them," said Cyrus.
"Well, deep, down deep within those eyes I could see the Thing that makes the world go round; the tender, unchanging glow that is life to a broken lover."
Here Cyrus smiled, nodded, gulped, started to say something and gave it up.