"How beautiful! I wish I had seen it! Who was it with?"
"Mr. Jervais."
"Oh—goody! Did you kill him?"
"No—neither of us was hurt."
She sighed disappointedly, and went silent, her head nestling in the hollow of his shoulder.
"Do you have to hurry back to those old lawyers?"
Sargent shook his head.
"No. They've told me all there was to tell."
Natalia smiled up at him, her silent, sweet little smile. She did not make any motion to move or say anything, but lay against him contentedly gazing up at the sky.
"I've seen three shooting stars to-night—Oh! look! There's the fourth!" she exclaimed, lifting her face to follow the flashing light. "And the heavens—aren't they beautiful to-night? I wonder what it means. I never saw the stars so bright before."