Do you remember that I told you one day in early summer--that Sheila and Dorothy and Gladys would mark you for their own?
Oh, my inconstant courtier, they are yonder!--And I absolve you.

Adieu!" "Do you remember what _I_ told _you_--one day in early summer ?" he returned coolly.
Her heart began its absurd beating again--but now there was no trace of pain in it--nothing of apprehension in the echo of the pulse either.
"You protested so many things, Captain Selwyn--" "Yes; and one thing in particular.

You've forgotten it, I see." And he looked her in the eye.
"No," she said, "you are wrong.

I have not forgotten." "Nor I." He halted, looking out over the shining breakers.

"I'm glad you have not forgotten what I said; because, you see, I'm forbidden to repeat it.