The Castle of the Shadows

"[...]round?" Virginia hesitated. The man's voice shook. She did not know whether to yield or to feel contempt because he showed emotion so much more readily than her English and American friends. But while she hesitated they were joined by her cousin, Sir Roger Broom, who had been riding behind with her half-brother, George Trent, and Lady Gardiner. "Look here, Loria," he exclaimed, with a certain excitement underlying his tone; "it has just occurred to me that this is-er-the place that's been nicknamed for the last few years the 'Valley of the Shadow.'"[...]".