George Voss was very careful to make no demonstration of affection for a girl who had forgotten him, and who was now, as he believed, betrothed to another man; and Marie was determined that certainly no sign of the old love should first be shown by her.

He had come back,--perhaps just in time.

He had returned just at the moment in which something must be decided.

She had felt how much there was in the little word which she had spoken to her uncle.

When a girl says that she will try to reconcile herself to a man's overtures, she has almost yielded.