"Not for gold or the lack of it, not for friends or for enemies, not even for yourself." "I have known you for many years," he answered.

"I have watched you grow from a child into a gracious and beautiful woman.

Do you not think that I care for you, Evelyn ?" Near where he sat so many violets were blooming that they made a purple carpet for the ground.

Going over to them, she knelt and began to pluck them.

"If any danger threatened me," she began, in her clear, low voice, "I believe that you would step between me and it, though at the peril of your life.