Nay" (as she looked up in surprise), "I know you have not used Eveena kindly, but I heard from yourself that you had repented.

That she, who could never be coaxed or compelled to say what made her unhappy, or even to own that I had guessed it truly, has fully forgiven you, you don't need to be told." "Indeed, I don't understand," the girl sobbed.

"Eveena is always so strangely soft and gentle--she would rather suffer without reason than let us suffer who deserve it.

But just because she is so kind, you must feel the more bitterly for her.

Besides," she went on, "I was so jealous--as if you could compare me with her--even after I had felt her kindness.