If, on the other hand, I do not hear from you, I shall know that it is because you do not choose to write, or because that which you have to write would be too painful for me to read.

Do you understand, Jane ?" "Oh! yes, Leonard, but you put things so hardly." "Things have been put hardly enough to me, love, and I must be plain--this is my last chance of speaking to you." At this moment an ominous sound echoed through the night; it was none other than the distant voice of Mr.Beach, calling from his front-door step, "Jane! Are you out there, Jane ?" "Oh! heavens!" she said, "there is my father calling me.

I came out by the back door, but mother must have been up to my room and found me gone.

She watches me all day now.

What _shall_ I do ?" "Go back and tell them that you have been saying good-bye to me.