It will not laugh, then.
If you can trust your friend to keep the secret, I am sure you can trust me to do the same." Again Chase was speechless--this time with joy.

She would shield him from ridicule! "And now, please go! It were better if you went at once.

I am afraid the affair will not end with to-night.

It grieves me to feel that I may be the unhappy cause of misfortune to you." "No misfortune can appal me now," murmured he gallantly.

Then came the revolting realisation that she was to wed the little musician.