Elizabeth, my heart aches for that poor fellow, but even you do not know what I have suffered on his account all these weeks.

There were times when I was tempted to throw up the sponge." "Oh, David, when you knew--when you must have known my feelings!" "Yes, I knew; but there were days when my courage failed me, and I felt I had no right to stand in your light.

Dearest," and here he was kneeling beside her with all a man's worship in his honest eyes, "you are too good for me--do you think I do not know that it is your goodness and generosity that make you stoop to me!" But Elizabeth laid her hand upon his lips.
"Hush, you shall not talk so.

It is I who am not worthy of you.

I love you, David--I love you, oh so dearly; that is enough for you--and me too," and Elizabeth looked at him with an adorable smile.