"No, not a thing." He went up and shook hands. "You don't know what it means to be able to look you in the eyes again, sir. That's everything!"
"And Doris?" said Drake slowly, beaten at every point.
"Doris I am going to see now," he said.
He went to the door hastily to avoid sentimentalities, and on the other side of the curtain, where she had been listening, he found Doris, wide-eyed and thrilled, her finger on her lips.
CHAPTER XIX
A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK
"What, you were there! You heard!" he said, astounded.
She nodded her head, incapable of speech, her finger still on her lips, drawing him by the hand into the little sitting-room where they were in a measure free from other eyes.
"Now for a torrent of reproaches," he thought grimly.