CHAPTER XXVI
"Look long, look long in the water Mélisande,
Is there never a face but your own?
There is never a soul you shall know Mélisande,
Your soul must stand alone.
All alone in the world Mélisande,
Alone, alone."
Ethel Clifford.
The long evening was before Janey. Since her stroke, her mother "retired for the night," as the nurse called it, at nine instead of ten. And at nine, Janey came down to the drawing-room and established herself with her work beside the lamp. Harry, whom nothing could keep awake after his game of dominoes, went to bed at nine also.