"What did you say to me ?" "I cannot say it again." She slowly shook her head, not comprehending, and for a while sat silent, struggling with her own thoughts.

Then, suddenly instinct with the subtle fear which had driven her into speech: "When I said--said that to you--last summer; when I cried in the swinging seat there--because I could not answer you--as I wished to--did _that_ change you, Captain Selwyn ?" "No." "Then y-you are unchanged ?" "Yes, Eileen." The first thrill of deep emotion struck through and through her.
"Then--then _that_ is not it," she faltered.

"I was afraid--I have sometimes wondered if it was.

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