Alarmed for a moment, he leaped up the stairs.

She stood waiting for him at the door of the room.
"Well!" exclaimed he, hastily.
"You forgot to kiss me, Abel," she said.
He took her by the shoulders, and looked at her before him.

In her eyes there were pity, and gentleness, and love.
"Fool!" he said, half-pleased, half-vexed--kissed her, and rushed out into the street..