Chapter 25
Book IV. Chapter XXV Anna stood in the middle of the room, her eyes on the door. Darrow's questioning gaze was still on her, and she said to herself with a quick-drawn breath: "If only he doesn't come near me!" It seemed to her that she had been suddenly endowed with the fatal gift of reading the secret sense of every seemingly spontaneous look and movement, and that in his least gesture of affection she would detect a cold design. For a moment longer he continued to look at her enquiringly; then he turned away and took up his habitual stand by the mantel-piece. She drew a deep breath of relief . "Won't you please explain?" he said. "I can't explain: I don't know. I didn't even know--till she told you--that she really meant to break her engagement. All I know is that she came to me ju
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