Sometimes she would wake from sleep with her heart beating, and those sad, reproachful words sounding in her ears-- "I can never be your friend, Elizabeth." And again, "If either of you want me, I will come if needs be from the ends of the earth." Would she ever forget the look on his face as he said this! She had told him then that she should miss him.

In these two years she had only seen him twice, and each time some strange embarrassment on her part had seemed to estrange them still more.

He was Dinah's friend, not hers--from her he would have all or nothing.

And yet, as time went on, and that vast loneliness of life pressed on her more and more, and her woman spirit seemed to wander through waste places seeking rest and finding none, that silent, patient love, that seemed to enfold her from a distance, began to appeal to her more strongly.

"Why should another life be spoiled ?" Mr.Carlyon had said.