"No, Larry, you cannot be to Kitty everything that a man should be to his wife.

You cannot, without love, be a husband to her." Again they walked in silence for a little way.

Then Helen asked: "And are you sure, Larry, that Kitty cares for you--as a woman ought to care, I mean ?" "I could not have asked her to be my wife if I had not thought so," he answered, with more spirit.
"Of course," returned his companion gently, "and Kitty could not have answered, 'yes,' if she had not believed that you loved her." "Do you mean that you think Kitty does not care for me, Helen ?" "I _know_ that she loves Phil Acton, Larry.

I saw it in her face when we first learned that he was hurt.

And to-day the poor girl confessed it.
She loved him all the time, Larry--has loved him ever since they were boy and girl together.