You've no idea how I've wanted to see you." "Have you ?" said Gabriella in so low a voice that he hardly heard her.
Then, lifting her glowing eyes, she added softly, "I am glad that you wanted to." "There were times when I simply couldn't get you out of my mind," he responded, and went on almost joyously, with the romantic look which had first enchanted her imagination.

"You see I believed that you were going to marry Arthur Peyton.

Julia told me that your engagement was broken.
That was why I came back.

Didn't you guess it ?" "Yes, I guessed it," she answered simply, and all the softness, the sweetness, the beauty of her feeling passed into her voice.
Then, in the very midst of her happiness, there occurred one of those sordid facts which appear to spring, like vultures, upon the ineffable moments.

She heard the bell--the awful supper bell which her mother insisted upon having rung because her parents had had it rung for generations before her.