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MRS. KEITH hardly even attempted to regain self-control, but sobbed herself into a stupor, followed by sleep. Not till the morning did she again see her son; and no human being learnt the details of that interview. She came out of it subdued, humbled, softened; for the first time with a dawning of real contrition. Giles' deep distress, his patient acceptance of his new position, his forbearance towards her, made a profound impression upon one whose thought had always been for self. Now, viewing half a lifetime of deceit with her son's eyes, she was shamed to the heart.
A more difficult interview had to follow. She had promised to send for the other Colin-the true Giles-not denying that she had to ask his pardon. But this was infinitely harder. She did not love Colin as she loved Giles-for the avoidance of confusion it is better to use still the wrong names. From his childhood her knowledge of the great wrong done to him had caused a hardness and bitterness of feeling, against which she honestly fought, but which had too often mastered her.