I might have known it was love, not charity, that held me so safely in their hearts.

But when a blow falls and reason goes--how can a girl reason ?" She looked down at her bridle hand.
"There was a man," she said in a low voice; "he was only a boy then." Hamil's face hardened.
"Until he asked me I never supposed any man could ever want to marry me.
I took it for granted....

He was Gray's friend; I had always known him....

He had been silly sometimes.

He asked me to marry him.