It had only uncovered the love of the man who lay enshrined in its depths.

A sudden sense of the injustice done him arose in her mind and then her own helplessness in it all.
"I would give him everything I have, if I could," she answered simply, all her insistency gone, the tears starting to her eyes.
Lucy threw her arms about her sister and held her cheek to her own.
"Dear, I was only in fun; please forgive me.

Everything is so solemn to you.

Now kiss me and tell me you love me." That night when Captain Holt came in to play with the little "Pond Lily," as he called Ellen, Jane told him of her conversation with Lucy, not as a reflection on her sister, but because she thought he ought to know how she felt toward Archie.

The kiss had wiped out the tears, but the repudiation of Archie still rankled in her breast.
The captain listened patiently to the end.