A miserable woman, tormented by hopeless love, is still the better and the nobler for that love; and a time will surely come when she will show it.

You have fears for Carmina--cast away, poor soul, among strangers with hard hearts! I tell you to have no fears.

She may suffer under trials; she may sink under trials.

But the strength to rise again is in her--and that strength is Love.' "Having read our old friend's letter, Miss Minerva turned back, and read it again--and waited a little, repeating some part of it to herself.
"'Does it encourage you ?' I asked.
"She handed the letter back to me.

'I have got one sentence in it by heart,' she said.
"You will know what that sentence is, without my telling you.