"If I were to save for two years, I could not get francs enough to buy anything worth giving back; and I should be so unhappy, thinking of the debt of it always.

Do tell me if you put those stockings there ?" "No"; he looked at her, and the trivial lie faltered and died away; the eyes, clear as crystal, questioned him so innocently.

"Well, if I did ?" he said, frankly; "you wished for them; what harm was there?
Will you be so cruel as to refuse them from me ?" The tears sprang into Bebee's eyes.

She was sorry to lose the beautiful box, but more sorry he had lied to her.
"It was very kind and good," she said, regretfully.

"But I cannot think why you should have done it, as you had never known me at all.