What can you have to say ?" A sudden thought occurred to her.

"Has Lord Arleigh sent you to me ?" she asked.
"Lord Arleigh!" he repeated, in wonder.

"No, he has nothing to do with what I have to say.

Sit down--you do not look strong--and I will tell you why I am here." It never occurred to him to ask why she had named Lord Arleigh.

He saw her sink, half exhausted, half frightened, upon the couch, and he sat down by her side.
"Madaline," he began, "will you look at me, and see if my face brings back no dream, no memory to you?
Yet how foolish I am to think of such a thing! How can you remember me when your baby-eyes rested on me for only a few minutes ?" "I do not remember you," she said, gently--"I have never seen you before." "My poor child," he returned, in a tone so full of tenderness and pain that she was startled by it, "this is hard!" "You cannot be the gentleman I used to see sometimes in the early home that I only just remember, who used to amuse me by showing me his watch and take me out for drives ?" "No.