She
saw a Higher Hand in this arrangement; and said, as she watched the
minutes slowly pass: "He hath broken down the middle wall of
partition between us"; and a sense of calm assurance descended, and
garrisoned her soul with peace.
The quarter of an hour was over.
Jane crossed the hall with firm, though noiseless, step; stood a
moment on the threshold relegating herself completely to the
background; then opened the door; and Nurse Rosemary re-entered the
library.
CHAPTER XXXIV
"LOVE NEVER FAILETH"
Garth was standing at the open window, when Nurse Rosemary re-
entered the library; and he did not turn, immediately.
She looked anxiously for the letter, and saw it laid ready on her
side of the table. It bore signs of having been much crumpled;
looking almost as a letter might appear which had been crushed into
a ball, flung into the waste-paper basket, and afterwards retrieved.
It had, however, been carefully smoothed out; and lay ready to her
hand.
When Garth turned from the window and passed to his chair, his face
bore the signs of a great struggle.
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