"No, I shall stay here with you until you have had a good sleep. Now shut your eyes."
The girl tried to obey. For about ten minutes she sat quiet, and Wyndham held her close, trying to impart some of the warmth from his own body to her frozen frame. Suddenly the girl raised her eyes, looked him in the face, and smiled.
"Sir, you are an angel."
"You make a great mistake. On the contrary I have sinned more deeply than most."
"Sir?"
"It is true."
"I don't want you to preach to me, sir; but I know from your face however you have sinned you have been forgiven."
"You make another mistake; my sin is unabsolved."
"Sir?"
The girl's astonishment showed itself in her tone.