And now I must ask you to forgive me for having wasted so much of your time, before I say good-morning." "There has been no time of mine wasted.

I have learned to know your generous heart even better than I knew it before, and I think I always knew that it was a noble one.

Believe me, I am not ungrateful or indifferent to so much goodness." He accompanied her downstairs, and through the courts and passages to the place where she had left her cab, in spite of the ticket-porter, who was hanging about ready to act as escort.

He saw her safely seated in the hackney vehicle, and then walked slowly back to his chambers, thinking over the interview which had just concluded.
"Poor little soul," he said softly to himself; "dear little soul! There are men who would go to the end of the world for a woman like that; yes, if she had not a sixpence.

And to think that I, who thought myself so strong in the wisdom of the world, should have let such a prize slip through my fingers?
For what?
For a fancy, for a caprice that has brought confusion and shame upon me--disappointment and regret." He breathed a profound sigh.