And to escape from her panic she went hurriedly to his room.

He was asleep there, and sleeping soundly.

She went up to him, and holding the light above his face, she gazed a long while at him.

Now when he was asleep, she loved him so that at the sight of him she could not keep back tears of tenderness.

But she knew that if he waked up he would look at her with cold eyes, convinced that he was right, and that before telling him of her love, she would have to prove to him that he had been wrong in his treatment of her.