To-day I have a position I am proud of, and important work.

Yet I cannot help always remembering this: I am holding a post which you warned me against accepting." "Well ?" "I am very curious," I said.

"I have never understood your warning.

I believe that you were in earnest.

Was it that you believed me incapable or untrustworthy, or--" "You appear to me," she murmured, "to be rather a curious person." I bent forward and looked into her face.