Had she forgotten that in less than a week she would be Gilbert's wife?
A simple test: could she speak out these thoughts of hers to Lyddy?
The hot current in her veins was answer enough.

And that had been the criterion of right and wrong with her since she was a little child.

Lyddy knew the right instinctively, and never failed to act upon her knowledge.

What had been Lyddy's thoughts of Luke Ackroyd?
Perhaps not very different from these to which she had been listening; for Lyddy too was a work-girl, not a lady.

Yet the brave sister had kept it all hidden away; more, had done her very best to bring together Luke and someone else whom he loved.