If he were angry, and did not scold a little, I should think that he was really vexed with me." "Then you must be very much in love, Nina ?" "I am in love--very much." "And does it make you happy ?" "Happy! Happiness depends on so many things.

But it makes me feel that there can only be one real unhappiness; and unless that should come to me, I shall care for nothing.

Good-bye, love.

Tell your uncle that I was here, and say--say to him when no one else can hear, that I went away with a sad heart because I had not seen him." It was late in the evening when Anton Trendellsohn came home, but Ruth remembered the message that had been intrusted to her, and managed to find a moment in which to deliver it.

But her uncle took it amiss, and scolded her.