It--ah--it enables me to say that which for several weeks past has been weighing heavily on my mind." Kitty looked at him with the manner of a trusting disciple waiting for the gems of truth that were about to fall from the lips of a venerable teacher.
"Miss Reid--ah--why need our beautiful and mutually profitable companionship cease ?" "I fear that I do not understand, Professor Parkhill," she answered, puzzled by his question.
He looked at her with just a shade of mild--very mild--rebuke, as he returned, "Why, I think that I have stated my thought clearly.

I mean that I am very desirous that our relation--the relation which we both have found so helpful--should continue.

I am sure that we have, in these months which we have spent together, sufficient evidence that our souls vibrate in perfect harmony.

I need you, dear friend; your understanding of my soul's desires is so sympathetic; I feel that you so complement and fill out, as it were, my spiritual self.

I need you to encourage, to inspire, to assist me in the noble work to which I am devoting all my strength." She looked at him, now, with an expression of amazement.