Well, I shall certainly try my best from now on to leave a happy one behind for him." He gave her the ring that night, the little golden lover's knot with the name of Tusitala engraved inside, to remind her always of the Road of the Loving Heart, that she might leave in the world after her.

With her head on his shoulder and his arm around her, they talked long, and freely together, as they had never done before.
Once he looked at her with a quizzical little smile.

"I never realised until to-night," he said, "how old you are, or how companionable you can be.

But we'll always be good chums after this, won't we ?" "Yes," she answered, giving his ear a playful tweak, and mischievously imitating his tone and manner.

"And I never realised until to-night how young you are, or how companionable _you_ can be.