Each became frightfully aware of the other as a plastic energetic body, of the strong muscles of neck against cheek, of hands gripping shoulder-blade and waist. “I have spoken too many truths to-night. Sebastian grabbed the infant once again by the chest and it wailed into the air, exposing its rows of shark like teeth. Indeed, a note of weeping broke her voice for a moment as she burst out, “You know as well as I do that money was a loan!” “Loan!” “You yourself called it a loan!” “Euphuism. Determined, however, to conquer the feeling as soon as possible, Wood had given orders to have the evening meal served there; but, notwithstanding all his good resolutions upon his first entrance, he had much ado to maintain his self-command. The child has sprung into a youth; the youth has become a man; the man has already begun to feel the advances of age. One night she apparently fell asleep. But her husband, whose deportment to her was considerably changed since the fatal knot had been tied, paid no attention whatever to her grief.