"I will come ... tomorrow ... and call on your wife," she said, quietly. "Give her my very best wishes, will you? ... And ... thank you! ... You have done me a great service!..."
When he reached his box Bruce was waiting for him.
"You saw Louise?" he said directly.
"Yes!"
"You told her?"
"Yes, I told her."
"That was right!"
They hesitated a moment, one whether to question, the other whether to explain.
"I admire her as much as any woman," said Gunther, at last. "She made only one blunder ... At that, Fate was against her."
This answer, and the way it was delivered, was all that Beecher was permitted to understand of an episode which deserves a novel to itself. Nevertheless, he felt that there must have been something far out of the ordinary to have brought forth from Gunther this eulogy, which sounded at the moment like an epitaph.