Diana never looks or loves for nothing." "It will do no good if he does," insisted Arthur, ruefully, as if he were sure that Hope Wayne understood that he was speaking in parables.
"Why ?" she asked, as she rose, still looking at the picture.
"Because goddesses never marry." He looked into her eyes with so much meaning, and the "do they ?" which he did not utter, was so perfectly expressed by his tone, that Hope Wayne, as she moved slowly toward the door, looking at the pictures on the wall as she passed, said, with her eyes upon the pictures, and not upon the painter, "Do you know the moral of that remark of yours ?" "Moral?
Heaven forbid! I don't make moral remarks," replied Arthur.
"This time you have done it," she said, smiling; "you have made a remark with a moral.

I'm going, and I leave it with you as a legacy.

The moral is, If goddesses never marry, don't fall in love with a goddess." She put out her hand to him as she spoke.

He involuntarily took it, and they shook hands warmly.
"Good-morning, Mr.Merlin," she said.

"Remember the Round Table to-morrow evening." She was gone, and Arthur Merlin sank into the chair she had just left.
"Oh Heavens!" said he, "did she understand or not ?".