Christopher looked away indifferently. "Oh, had she? I didn't notice."
The tears started to Marie's eyes. She felt like a disappointed child.
CHAPTER II
"All men kill the thing they love
By all let this be heard.
The coward does it with a kiss. . . ."
THERE followed a terribly dull week, during which Marie hardly went out. Miss Chester believed in seven days' unbroken mourning, and she kept the girl to it rigorously.
Christopher came and went. He seemed very busy, and was constantly shut up in the library with men whom Miss Chester said were "lawyers."
"There are a great many things to settle, you know," she told Marie. "Your father had large properties and much money to leave."