‘How can I live and never know such happiness again?’ she asked herself and felt as if the whole world was dark.
*
It took them nearly two hours to reach Hoyes and there they had to wait for the slow train to carry them on to Ettengen.
They had picked a compartment to themselves when they left Paris, but Zena had said very little to Kendric because he was tired after not being able to go to bed all night and he soon fell asleep.
She too felt tired, but she could only think of the Comte and wonder what he would think and feel when Renée gave him her note and he learnt that she and Kendric had left Paris.
She remembered all the words of love he had ever spoken to her and she knew that she would repeat them and repeat them all her life and they would be her only comfort and help in the y
