Would to Heaven I had it myself! I wouldn't have missed this talk with you for the world, and you can't know how I appreciate the friendship which has led you to speak to me frankly of what is so sacred.

All the whirl and pressure of coming life and business shall never blot from my memory the words you have spoken this morning or the scenes you have made so real." If this were true, how infinitely deeper would have been his impression if he could have seen the beautiful girl, now smiling into his eyes, bowed in agony at that sick-bed, while she acknowledged with stifled sobs that the dying girl _was_ better off--far happier than she who had to face almost the certainty of lifelong disappointment.
Poor Madge had not told Graydon all her story.

She would have died rather than have her secret known on earth, but she had not feared to breathe it to one on the threshold of heaven..