Mr Crosbie Meets an Old Clergyman on His Way to Courcy Castle For the first mile or two of their journey Crosbie and Bernard Dale sat, for the most part, silent in their gig.

Lily, as she ran down to the churchyard corner and stood there looking after them with her loving eyes, had not been seen by them.

But the spirit of her devotion was still strong upon them both, and they felt that it would not be well to strike at once into any ordinary topic of conversation.

And, moreover, we may presume that Crosbie did feel much at thus parting from such a girl as Lily Dale, with whom he had lived in close intercourse for the last six weeks, and whom he loved with all his heart,--with all the heart that he had for such purposes.

In those doubts as to his marriage which had troubled him he had never expressed to himself any disapproval of Lily.