She could stand and tell him this to his face! "So these are your sentiments, then," he observed, scornfully.

"I always suspected it; and now, for what I care, you may please yourself about coming home, Elizabeth," he continued in a cold, indifferent tone.
"You ought always to have known what my sentiments were, Salve; that I was, perhaps, too much attached to you." "I shall send you money.

You shall not have that as an excuse.

So far as I am concerned, you may enjoy the society of Fru Beck and your fine friends as long as ever you please." "And why should I not be allowed to speak to Fru Beck ?" she cried, with her head thrown back, and with an expression of rising anger.

"You don't mean, I suppose, that there is anything against me that should prevent my entering her house?
But there must be an end to this, Salve--and it is for the sake of our love I say it; for if matters go on as they have been going on so long between us," she concluded slowly, and with a tremor in her voice, "you might live to see the day when it had ceased to exist.