Out of the sweet and dear delight of this encyclopedian reserve two or three facts appeared with a present distinctness.

One of these was that Burnamy had regarded her refusal to be definite at Carlsbad as definite refusal, and had meant never to see her again, and certainly never to speak again of love to her.

Another point was that she had not resented his coming back that last night, but had been proud and happy in it as proof of his love, and had always meant somehow to let him know that she was torched by his trusting her enough to come back while he was still under that cloud with Mr.Stoller.With further logic, purely of the heart, she acquitted him altogether of wrong in that affair, and alleged in proof, what Mr.
Stoller had said of it to Mr.March.Burnamy owned that he knew what Stoller had said, but even in his present condition he could not accept fully her reading of that obscure passage of his life.

He preferred to put the question by, and perhaps neither of them cared anything about it except as it related to the fact that they were now each other's forever.
They agreed that they must write to Mr.and Mrs.March at once; or at least, Agatha said, as soon as she had spoken to her father.

At her mention of her father she was aware of a doubt, a fear, in Burnamy which expressed itself by scarcely more than a spiritual consciousness from his arm to the hands which she had clasped within it.