32/39 He was beginning to hope, to believe once more in his judgment of character; and yet, with his hope and growing joy, there was a trifle of anxiety. I can't understand yet why you wished to wait before saying yes, but I do know that it must have been neither because you were unkind nor ungenerous. "What did they tell you ?" he asked, quickly. They told me what you had done and were doing for them. How kind you had been all through the illness and to-day. |