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He had a
relapse, double pneumonia set in, and he died in five days from
heart failure. My poor aunt was frantic with grief; and since then
any mention of my love of music makes her very bitter. I, too,
wanted to take it up professionally, but she put her foot down
heavily. I scarcely ever venture to sing or play here."
"Why not elsewhere?" asked Garth Dalmain. "We have stayed about at
the same houses, and I had not the faintest idea you sang."
"I do not know," said Jane slowly. "But--music means so much to me.
It is a sort of holy of holies in the tabernacle of one's inner
being. And it is not easy to lift the veil."
"The veil will be lifted to-night," said Myra Ingleby.
"Yes," agreed Jane, smiling a little ruefully, "I suppose it will."
"And we shall pass in," said Garth Dalmain.


CHAPTER V
CONFIDENCES

The shadows silently lengthened on the lawn.
The home-coming rooks circled and cawed around the tall elm trees.
The sun-dial pointed to six o'clock.


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