"I don't want to hear any more--I must--I will--" "But you SHALL! There IS something more.

It went on and on and I got so that I did not care, and one day I thought I would give him my promise and the next day all my soul rebelled against it and it was that way until one night Mr.Horn read aloud a story--and it all came over me and I saw everything plain as if it had been on a stage, and myself and you and Mr.Willits--and what it meant--and what would come of it--and he walked home with me and I told him frankly, and I have never seen him since.

And now here is the last and you must hear it out.

There is not a word I have said to him which I would recall--not a thing I am ashamed of.

Your lips were the last that touched my own.