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I shall see you some time to-day."
"Can you give me any sort of hope?"
"As yet I know nothing of the actual event, and must not therefore
offer you hope, or tell you not to hope."
She shook his hand and a fleeting ghost of a smile, infinitely
pathetic but unconscious, touched her face. Even in grief the beauty
of the woman was remarkable; and to Brendon, whose private emotions
already struck into the present demands upon his intellect, she
appeared exquisite. As he left her he hoped that a great problem lay
before him. He desired to impress her--he looked forward with a
passing exaltation quite foreign from his usual staid and cautious
habit of mind; he even repeated to himself a pregnant saying that he
had come across in a book of quotations, though he knew not the
author of it.
"There is an hour in which a man may be happy all his
life, can he but find it."
Then he grew ashamed of himself and felt something like a blush
suffuse his plain features.
At the police station a car was waiting for him and in twenty
minutes he had reached Foggintor.


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