If you were not my mother, I should be angry beyond self-control." "Ellis," said Mrs.Whitford, laying her hand upon the arm of her son and speaking with slow impressiveness, "I am older than you are by nearly thirty years, have seen more of life than you have, _and know some things that you do not know._ I have your welfare at heart more deeply than any other being except God.

I know you better in some things than you know yourself.

Love makes me clear-seeing.

And this is why I am in such earnest with you to-night.

Ellis, I want a promise from you.