"I shall remain here with my niece for an hour.
Perhaps in that time she will awaken to her old truth, her old duty; and perhaps you will require no more in which to gather your papers and remove yourself from Fontenoy ?" "I shall not need the hour," answered Rand.

"I will be gone presently.
God knows, sir, I had not thought to go this way." He turned from his host and bent for a moment over Jacqueline.

"Good-bye," he said.
"Good-bye for a little while! My heart is in your hands.

I trust you for constancy.

Good-bye--good-bye!" He was gone, moving rapidly toward the house.