Shall you attend Aunt Adie's wedding ?" she asked.
"Yes, I think so.

Don't you sometimes feel as if you'd like to stay here altogether ?" "Yes, and no; it's very lovely, and the more charming I believe, because it is my own; but--there is so much more to bind me to the Oaks, and I could never live far away from papa." "Couldn't you?
I hoped---- Oh, Elsie, couldn't you possibly love some one else better even than you love him?
You're more to me than father, mother, and all the world beside.

I have wanted to tell you so for years, but while I was comparatively poor your fortune sealed my lips.

Now I am rich, and I lay all I have at your feet; myself included; and----" "Oh, Harold, hush!" she cried in trembling tones, flushing and paling by turns, and putting up her hand as if to stop the torrent of words he was pouring forth so unexpectedly that astonishment had struck her dumb for an instant; "oh! don't say any more, I--I thought you surely knew that--that I am already engaged." "No.

To whom ?" he asked hoarsely, his face pale as death, and lips quivering so that he could scarcely speak.
"To Mr.Travilla.It has been only for a few weeks, though we have loved each other for years.