"As if I COULD forget you! I shall always think of you as the loveliest and sweetest woman in the world." "And when I am out of the world--what then ?" she pursued.
Remembering her spiritual sympathies, I answered at once: "Even then I shall know you to be one of the fairest of the angels.

So you see, Zara darling, I shall always love you." "I think you will," she said meditatively; "you are one of us.

But come! I hear voices downstairs.

I think our expected guests have arrived, and we must be in the drawing-room to receive them.

Good-bye, little friend!" And she again kissed me.
"Good-bye!" I repeated in astonishment; "why 'good-bye' ?" "Because it is my fancy to say the word," she replied with quiet firmness.