"But, Jason," she said, with her eyes aside, and her fingers running through the hair of little Michael, "but, Jason," she faltered, "you will not betray me?"
"Betray you?" he said, and laughed a little.
"Because," she added quietly, "though I am here, my husband does not know me for his wife. He is blind, and cannot see me, and for my own reasons I have never spoken to him since I came."
"You have never spoken to him?" said Jason.
"Never."
"And how long have you lived in this house?"
"Two years."
Then Jason remembered what Sunlocks had told him at the mines, and in another moment he had read Greeba's secret by the light of his own.
"I understand," he said, sadly, "I think I understand."
She caught the look of sorrow in his eyes, and said, "But, Jason, what of yourself?"