Keith's mind sprang back to that evening in the Park, and he cursed Wickersham in his heart.
"Possibly she has had some strain on her emotions?"
Keith did not know.
"I understand that there is a young man here who has been in love with her for some time, and her aunt thinks she returned the sentiment."
Keith did not know. But the Doctor's words were like a dagger in his heart.
Keith went back to work; but he seemed to himself to live in darkness. As soon as a gleam of light appeared, it was suddenly quenched. Love was not for him.
CHAPTER XXXV
THE MISTRESS OF THE LAWNS
Strange to say, the episode in which Keith had figured as the reliever of Norman Wentworth's embarrassment had a very different effect upon those among whom he had moved, from what he had expected. Keith's part in the transaction was well known.