"I'd like to see how it works." "Don't be a glutton, Humphrey," Maud chided me.

"Remember, to-morrow is coming, and you're so tired now that you can hardly stand." "And you ?" I said, with sudden solicitude.

"You must be very tired.

You have worked hard and nobly.

I am proud of you, Maud." "Not half so proud as I am of you, nor with half the reason," she answered, looking me straight in the eyes for a moment with an expression in her own and a dancing, tremulous light which I had not seen before and which gave me a pang of quick delight, I know not why, for I did not understand it.