The next moment there was a familiar tap at her door, and Dinah, flushed and agitated, came into the room.
Elizabeth watched her smilingly; then she opened her arms without a word, and for a few moments the sisters held each other very closely.
"Oh, Betty, my darling--my darling, if you knew how happy this has made me!" "How did you know, Die--have you seen him ?" "Yes, just now; he was crossing the hall, and I saw his face.

We were alone, there was no one near, and he caught hold of my hands--oh, such a grip.

'Dinah,' he said--'you will let me call you Dinah now?
for I am going to be your brother.' But we had no time for another word, for Cedric and Anna came out of the drawing-room." "We shall not tell them this evening," returned Elizabeth.

"Malcolm has promised to keep it quiet.

I told him that only you--my other self--must know to-night.