ty-handed. As she drew near the hotel she saw him waiting on the
doorstep, and her heart began to beat with apprehension.

He nodded and waved his hand at her approach, and they walked through
the hall and went upstairs to collect their possessions, so that Mr.
Royall might give up the key of the room when they went down again for
their midday dinner. In the bedroom, while she was thrusting back into
the satchel the few things she had brought away with her, she suddenly
felt that his eyes were on her and that he was going to speak. She stood
still, her half-folded night-gown in her hand, while the blood rushed up
to her drawn cheeks.

"Well, did you rig yourself out handsomely? I haven't seen any bundles
round," he said jocosely.

"Oh, I'd rather let Ally Hawes make the few things I want," she
answered.

"That so?" He looked at her thoughtfully for a moment and his eye-brows
projected in a scowl. Then his face grew friendly again. "Well, I wanted
you to go back looking stylisher than any of them; but I guess you're
right. You're a good girl, Charity."

Their eyes met, and something rose in his that she had never seen there:
a look that made her feel ashamed and yet secure.

"I guess you're good, too," she said, shyly and quickly. He smiled
without answering, and they went out of the room together and dropped
down to the hall in the glittering lift.

Late that evening, in the cold autumn moonlight, they drove up to the
door of the red house.

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