Nay! do not go! Let me say on now, and I will ever after hold my peace.

If this marriage contract, so unwisely made, is not broken, two lives will be made wretched--yours and mine.

You do not love Mr.Dexter! You cannot love him! That were as impossible as for light to be enamored of dark"-- "I will not hear you!" exclaimed Miss Loring, starting to her feet.
But Hendrickson caught her hand and restrained her by force.
"You must hear me!" he answered passionately.
"I dare not!" "This once! I must speak now, and you must hear! God has given you freedom of thought and freedom of will.

Let both come into their true activity.

The holiest things of your life demand this, Miss Loring.