We are neither of us at all gushing, and I was an old married woman, you know.

But there came a time when she needed my help--when she was in anxiety--and a woman's counsel and woman's sympathy were a comfort to her." Here Mrs.Godfrey paused as she became aware of the concentrated keenness in Malcolm's eyes, and added hastily, "The trouble was not her own; but it is Elizabeth's nature to take the burdens of others on her own shoulders.

I never knew any one capable of such intense sympathy.

It is a rare gift, Mr.
Herrick, but it brings its possessor great suffering." "You are right," in a low tone.
"I knew then that she was a woman in a thousand, and we have been close and dear friends ever since.

Not that we often meet.