He felt it in the trouble of her bosom pre ssed against his; in the nervous thrill of her arms clasped around his neck.

The Magdalen of his innocent experience, a woman--with the master-passion of her sex in possession of her heart already! "Have you thought long of this, my dear ?" he asked, as soon as he could speak composedly.

"Are you sure-- ?" She answered the question before he could finish it.
"Sure I love him ?" she said.

"Oh, what words can say Yes for me, as I want to say it?
I love him--!" Her voice faltered softly; and her answer ended in a sigh.
"You are very young.

You and Frank, my love, are both very young." She raised her head from his shoulder for the first time.