It went on and on. At last it
stopped. David roused himself, as from a dream. "But it is dark!" he
said, startled. "It is past the time thee should be with me. My
banishment began at sunset."
"Are all the sins to be thine?" she asked calmly. She had purposely let
him play beyond the time set for their being together.
"Good-night, Davy." She kissed him on the cheek. "I will keep the music
for the sin's remembrance," she added, and went out into the night.
CHAPTER IV
THE CALL
"England is in one of those passions so creditable to her moral sense, so
illustrative of her unregulated virtues. We are living in the first
excitement and horror of the news of the massacre of Christians at
Damascus. We are full of righteous and passionate indignation.
'Punish--restore the honour of the Christian nations' is the proud appeal
of prelate, prig, and philanthropist, because some hundreds of Christians
who knew their danger, yet chose to take up their abode in a fanatical
Muslim city of the East, have suffered death."
The meeting had been called in answer to an appeal from Exeter Hall.
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