More than that, we have long been friends.

And deep down in your heart I believe you want my regard; you want me to think well of you.

And I must tell you that there's a kind of happiness--for it must be happiness--that comes to me at the thought of it.

Something there is between you and me that is different; somehow we understand each other." His response was beyond anything she had hoped for; a light shone suddenly in his face.

There was no doubt of the sincerity of the feeling with which he replied:-- "Yes; I have felt it; I felt it the first day we met!" "And because there is this understanding, this tie, I dare to be frank with you: I mean to make your reparation difficult.