Dangerous Days

He was full of remorse when he started for home. He felt guilty of every

disloyalty. And in masculine fashion he tried to make up to Natalie for

the truth that had been wrung from him. He carried home a great bunch of

roses for her. But he carried home, too, a feeling of comfort and vague

happiness, as though the little room behind him still reached out and

held him in its warm embrace.