Excerpt from The Silent Sea, Vol. 2 of 3 Doris, hastily wiping away her tears, looked up. Their eyes met. I am awfully sorry, ' began Victor, and then he stood, colouring deeply, unable to take his eyes off the face upturned to him to look away from those wonderful eyes, radiant even in their sorrow. Doris got up as if to go inside. There was a little wicker table by the chair on which she had been sitting, covered with crayons and water-colour sketches. She began to gather them up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.