"I never said you knew it, but it's true, for all that.

I feel it here--where you will feel it one day, to your sorrow"-- and he placed his hand upon his heart.
A sudden terror took hold of her, but with difficulty she found her mental balance.
"I hoped, Mr.Layard," she said, "that we might have parted friends; but how can we when you bring such accusations ?" "I retract them," broke in the distracted man.

"You mustn't think anything of what I said; it is only the pain that has made me mad.

For God's sake, at least let us part friends, for then, perhaps, some day we may come together again." Stella shook her head sadly, and gave him her hand, which he covered with kisses.

Then, reeling in his gait like one drunken, the unhappy suitor departed into the falling snow.
Mechanically Stella switched on the instrument, and at once Morris's voice was heard asking: "I say, hasn't he gone ?" "Yes," she said.
"Thank goodness! Why on earth did you keep him gossiping all that time?
Now then--'Who can number the clouds in wisdom----'" "Not Mr.Layard or I," thought Stella sadly to herself, as she called back the answering verse..