better that his proposal should not be made. I will give the Colonel to
understand that there is no  for him. It shall be done to-morrow."

Raven leaned back in his seat, and the former silence set in again.
Gabrielle nestled more closely into her corner; she, who in the old
days could not have sat for the space of a quarter of an hour without
breaking forth into a flow of merry chatter, now showed no 
whatever to renew the conversation. A mighty change had come over the
girl, a change which could not be said exactly to date from George's
departure; before that, long before, there had arisen within her an
enigmatic unknown something against which she had battled from the
first, and which she had so long taken for the constraint of wordnetfear
and wordnetfear. This strange new  of mind had nothing in common with the
joyous, happy  which had warmed her  like sunshine when
George first confessed his wordnetdesire to her, when with all the  of
his  he prayed for her wordnetdesire in return, and she, smiling and
flushing with  and , spoke the word he pleaded for.
Often enough she recalled the memory of that hour, fleeing to it as to
some protecting influence--sometimes it would happen that she called on
it in vain. At