She clinched her argument by confessing that her own engagement had been broken off, and that it had simply renewed itself.

All you had to do was to keep willing it, and waiting.

There was something very mysterious in it.
"And how long was it till--" Agatha faltered.
"Well, in our ease it was two years." "Oh!" said the girl, but Mrs.March hastened to reassure her.
"But our case was very peculiar.

I could see afterwards that it needn't have been two months, if I had been willing to acknowledge at once that I was in the wrong.

I waited till we met." "If I felt that I was in the wrong, I should write," said Agatha.