the music she had come? No, for mere music she would not
have come out on this first evening of Charlie's return.

For what had she come then?

"Could ye not watch with Me one brief hour?"

The tender words stole down into the depths of her heart and stirred
it to a tenderness that she had never felt for her Saviour before. She
seemed, as the organ sounded out the Processional to Calvary, to
be one of the crowd gathering round the lonely figure in the Via
Dolorosa, and to be passing out through the gates of the city with the
triumphant song--

Fling wide the Gates!
Fling wide the Gates!
For the Saviour waits
To tread in His royal way!
He has come from above
In His power and love,
To die on this Passion Day.

The triumph of it, and the humiliation of it engrossed her.

How sweet is the grace of His sacred face,
And lovely beyond compare!

So with her eyes on His face, her feet following His pathway of
sorrow, forgetful of all else, she went on with Him to the end.

It was over!

The congregation passed out again under the starlit, moonlit sky, and
left the church with the words--

All for Jesus, all for Jesus!

still echoing softly amid the arches of the roof.

* * * * *

It was a very bright and lively party that sat round Mrs. Henchman's
supper-table that night. Mrs. Henchman, with Charlie beside
her, seemed brightest of all, and yet Denys fancied--was it only
fancy?--that when her hostess spoke to her or glanced at her, there
was a coldness in her voice and glance that she had not seen before.
Audrey divided her attentions between her brother and Cecil Greyburne,
with whose appearance at the concert she had been much gratified; but
as the meal progressed, Denys began to notice that Audrey did not
by any chance speak to her, and kept her eyes studiously in another
direction.

A shadow fell over Denys's happiness, but she drove it away with her
usual good-tempered large-mindedness. This was the first time that
Mrs. Henchman and Audrey had had to realise that Charlie was no longer
exclusively their own, and of course they felt that she was the cause!
They would be all right to-morrow.

But when Mary came in to clear the supper, Denys began to think
that there might be something more than that the matter, for Mary's
indignant and lowering look at her suddenly reminded her of that
unfortunate moment in the kitchen be