Perhaps it is well he was absent, for I am not so sure that his cooler judgment would have seen sufficient cause for the act.

All is going on now just as he, and I, and all concerned, could wish; and not for the world would I have him know, _at present_, our secret.

Stolen waters, they say, are sweet.

I know not.

But that brief, stolen interview at the fountain, was full of sweetness to me.