He hesitated, one hand on the back of the chair.

“I wanted to think——”

“Yes.”

“Good night!”

She watched him pass through the gate and down the lane. And everything seemed very strange and still.

CHAPTER XIV

MRS. CARFAX FINISHES HER KNITTING

It was a curious coincidence that Mrs. Carfax should have come to the end of her white wool that night, put her pins aside and left her work unfinished.