“They would say that I had forfeited light—that Faith was withdrawn.”
“And you?”
Again he paused.
“I should say that I had made a stronger self-suggestion the other way.”
“I see.... Good-night, Mr. Francis.”
She would not let him come down the lift with her, so when he had seen the smooth box drop noiselessly below the level, he went back again to his model of the Abbey and the little dummy figures. But, before he began to move these about again, he sat for a moment or two with pursed lips, staring.
CHAPTER IV
I
A week later Mabel awoke about dawn; and for a moment or two forgot where she was. She even spoke Oliver’s name aloud, staring round the unfamiliar room, wondering what she did here. Then she remembered, and was silent....