" 31

"Friends," she repeated, with a certain wistfulness
in her tone " 65

At half-past four his servant brought in a small
tea equipage " 83

With an old-fashioned courtesy ... he offered
her his arm " 105

There seemed to him something almost unearthly
about this woman with her soft grey gown
and marble face " 111

Matravers was suddenly conscious of an odd sense
of disturbance " 135

"I can do it," she assured him. "I believe you
doubt my ability, but you need not" " 143

"Do you know that man is driving me slowly
mad?" " 149

Matravers found himself wondering at this new
and very natural note of domesticity in her " 169

She did not answer him. But indeed there was
no need " 173

"I am compelled to tell you, and these gentlemen,
that your statement is a lie!" " 191

"You mean this!" he cried thickly. "Say it
again--quick!" " 211

Berenice was lying in a crumpled heap on the low
couch " 233

But there was no answer--there never could be
any answer " 259

BERENICE

CHAPTER I

"You may not care for the play," Ellison said eagerly. "You are of the
old world, and Isteinism to you will simply spell chaos and vulgarity.
But the woman! well, you will see her! I don't want to prejudice you
by praises which you would certainly think extravagant! I will say
nothing."

Matravers smiled gravely as he took his seat in the box and looked out
with some wonder at the ill-lit, half-empty theatre.

"I am afraid," he said, "that I am very much out of place here, yet do
not imagine that I bring with me any personal bias whatever. I know
nothing of the play, and Isteinism is merely a phrase to me. To-night
I have no individuality. I am a critic."

"So much depends," Ellison remarked, "upon the point of view. I am
afraid that you are the last man in the world to have any sy