Of course that is something indefinable, impalpable, but it has never been so before, and that glance means a great deal," she thought.

" That glance shows the beginning of indifference.

" And though she felt sure that a coldness was beginning, there was nothing she could do, she could not in any way alter her relations to him.

Just as before, only by love and by charm could she keep him.

And so, just as before, only by occupation in the day, by morphine at night, could she stifle the fearful thought of what would be if he ceased to love her.