For as long as we can see it, how can we be truly happy ?" "She has a deeper side also.

She does not turn it to the world, and it is not natural that she should, for she is very young.

But she thinks, and has aspirations of her own." "You cannot admire her more than I do.

Indeed, Miss Walker, I only ask to be brought into nearer relationship with her, and to feel that there is a permanent bond between us." It had come at last.

For a moment her heart was numbed within her, and then a flood of sisterly love carried all before it.