14/32 I can see it in his face, and hear it in his voice, and am so happy that it is so. But it isn't in the way that you mean. Heaven knows that I may want a friend some of these days, and I feel that I may trust to him. His feelings to me will be always those of a brother." "Perhaps so. I have seen that fraternal love before under similar circumstances, and it has always ended in the same way." "I hope it won't end in any way between us." "But the joke is that this suspicion, as you call it,--which makes you so indignant,--is simply a suggestion that a thing should happen which, of all things in the world, would be the best for both of you." "But the thing won't happen, and therefore let there be an end of it. |