You wrong both yourself and the lady to speak as you do.

Those who know her say the lady has not her like in all the world." A soft light came to Yolanda's face as he spoke, and she answered slowly:-- "Doubtless the lady had like news of you, and is curious to know what manner of man you are.

She too may have dreamed of an ideal." "How do you know she has never seen me ?" asked Max, who had not fully caught her reply when she spoke of the fact that he had never seen the lady of the ring.

"I shall surely come to believe you are a sorceress." "No, I am not," she answered emphatically.

"You shall carry that jest no further.