I did not want to lose you.

Ah, God! I was so lonely, so--so--I can not say.

But you did not find my message ?" I shook my head.

"No," I said, "I did not look in the slipper.

I do not think my friend did." "But she--that girl, did!" "How could she have believed ?" "Ah, grand! I reverence your faith.