LIST OFILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE "'I realised that I was going to kiss her if she didn't move.... And--she didn't'" _Frontispiece_ "'Give up my dead!' she whispered. 'Give up my dead!'" 40 "Christmas Eve she knelt, crying, before the pedestal" 80 "'Only one person in the world can ever matter to me--now'" 140 "Beyond, rocking wildly in a gilded boat, sat two people and a placid swan" 190 "'I--I don't know,' she stammered; 'my shoe seems tied to yours'" 214