"I feel that I must not lose you, because I have my duty to perform, and I trust my honor to you.

All will be well if you will only favor me with your womanly kindness, and trust to me as frankly as I to you.

We must meet to-day at Hugh Johnstone's as absolute strangers.

We must also remain strangers to all appearances for a time," he said at last.

The Swiss spinster gazed up at him piteously.
"May I not even tell Nadine ?" she faltered.
"Ah!" carelessly said Alan Hawke, "she is a mere child; I shall probably never see her.