Chapter 13

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌⁠The girl who entered the room a moment later was tall and graceful, with a yearning expression in her soft dark eyes, as though in search of a happiness which had been denied her by Fate. Her appearance was one of unusual refinement. She had not a trace of the coarsened blowzy look so common in English country girls; there was nothing of rustic lumpishness in her slim figure, and there was more th