14/29 I feel that very much when I am with you, and that is one reason why I try to be with you as much as possible." "You say that is one reason. Have you many others ?" Beatrice tried to laugh a little, but she felt somehow that laughter was out of place and that a serious moment in her life had come at last, in which it would be wiser to be grave and to think well of what she was doing. "You are good to me, you are young, you are fresh--you are gifted and unlike the others, and you have a rare charm such as I never met in any woman. Are those not all good reasons? Is the chief reason the last ?" "It is the last of all. |