Tears sprang to his eyes as he thought of her, and yet there was set before him an inexorable duty which he dared not ignore, for the things of Eternity rested on it.
He left his horse at the stable and walked slowly round to the front of the house.

As he reached the door it was swiftly opened, and in smiles and radiant raiment Jane stood waiting to receive him.
"John! John, dear!" she said softly, and he took her in his arms and whispered her name over and over on her lips.
"Dinner will be ready in half an hour," she said, "and it is the dinner you like best of all.

Do not loiter, John." He shook his head happily and took the broad low steps as a boy might--two or three at a time.

Everything now seemed possible to him.
"She is in an angel's temper," he thought.

"She has divined between the wrong and the right.