“Yes!”

She now began to muse. At last she said:

“And we shall know better where we are when I come back, shan’t we?”

“Oh, surely!”

The curious gulf of silence between them!

“I’ve been to the lawyer about my divorce,” he said, a little constrainedly.

She gave a slight shudder.

“Have you!” she said. “And what did he say?”

“He said I ought to have done it before; that may be a difficulty. But since I was in the army, he thinks it will go through all right. If only it doesn’t bring her down on my head!”