And we both of us value it at its proper price, don't we ?" Mr.Hazlewood could not reply.

How often had he inveighed against the opinions of the sleek worldly people who would add up advantages in a column and leave out of their consideration the merits of the higher life.
"It would not be fair to Stella were we to ask her to wait," Dick resumed.

"Any delay--think what will be made of it! A month or six weeks from now, that gives us time enough." The old man rose abruptly from his chair with a vague word that he would think of it and went into the house.

He saw again the lovers as he had seen them this afternoon walking side by side slowly towards Stella Ballantyne's cottage; and the picture even in the retrospect was intolerable.

The marriage must not take place--yet it was so near.