If Letty was ever to know those passages in his life, she must hear them first in high places, and from the lips of the repentant man himself! "I can not tell you, Letty," she said.

"You know the two bonds of friendship are the right of silence and the duty of speech.

I dare say you have some things which, truly as I know you love me, you neither wish nor feel at liberty to tell me." Letty thought of what had so lately passed between her and her cousin Godfrey, and felt almost guilty.

She never thought of one of the many things Tom had done or said that had cut her to the heart; those had no longer any existence.

They were swallowed in the gulf of forgetful love--dismissed even as God casts the sins of his children behind his back: behind God's back is just nowhere.