“It is a restful place. Once we thought we’d have to give it up, but some stocks paid in, and we saved it. I’m so glad!”
William straightened himself.
“I didn’t know that.”
She was startled. She had not thought that he would take it in this way. Everything led them into the shoals, it seemed. She smiled, but her lips shook.
“I don’t think any one knew it but Dan,” she replied gently. “Dan helped us save it.”
“Dan?” He turned and looked at her, plainly startled, too, by another thought. “Dan?”
She met his look steadily this time.
“Yes, Dan. He’s so good to us. I think he’s very noble.”
William stared at her, paling again. A kind of fury came into his look, and she saw it. He was jealous of Dan! She understood now. That poor girl, his wife, had been a wild fancy, an episode, no more, and he was waking up.
She rose slowly to her feet.