"Grizel, it is but fair to me.

It may be so important to me." "You have shown that you don't care for her, David, and that ends it." "Who is it ?" He was much stirred.
"If you don't know----" "Is it Elspeth ?" The question came out of him like a confession, and hope turned Grizel giddy.
"Do you love her, David ?" she cried.
But he hesitated.

"Is what you have told me true, that it would help you ?" he asked, looking her full in the eyes.
"Do you love her ?" she implored, but he was determined to have her answer first.
"Is it, Grizel ?" "Yes, yes.

Do you, David ?" And then he admitted that he did, and she rocked her arms in joy.
"But oh, David, to say such things to me when you were not a free man! How badly you have treated Elspeth to-day!" "She does not care for me," he said.
"Have you asked her ?"--in alarm.
"No; but could she ?" "How could she help it ?" She would not tell him what Tommy thought.
Oh, she must do everything to encourage David.
"And still," said he, puzzling, "I don't see how it can affect you." "And I can't tell you," she moaned.

"Oh, David, do, do find out.