Mr. Strong shrugged his shoulders. It was as if he said, "Well better late than never ... but you see, now."
"Yes," breathed Amory, softly, but aloud.
The next moment Mr. Strong was himself again. He returned to his station by the asbestos log.
"Well, there's Prang's article," he said in his business voice. "Am I to have it set up?"
"Perhaps we'd better see what Cosimo says first," Amory replied.
She did not know which was the greater delicacy in Mr. Strong—the exquisite tact of the glance he had given at the casts, or the quiet strength with which he took up the burden of editing the "Novum" again.