"Was that done for me ?" They were too near for anything but the truth to pass from eye to eye.
Ermentrude tried to laugh and utter a quick _No, no!_ but the little bride was not deceived.

Again upon her face there appeared that wonderful look of hers, which made her face for the moment verily beautiful, and unclasping her hands, she threw them about the other's neck, whispering in awed tones: "Yet you loved him! loved him too!" Then after a moment of silence dear to both their hearts, she drew back to give her friend one other look, and quietly said: "His heart is mine now, Ermentrude, wholly and truly mine.

And so you would have it be, I am sure.

Life looks fair to me and very sweet; but however fair, however sweet, that life is yours if ever you want it and when you want it.

The time may come--one never knows--when I can pay you back this debt.