Now she walked slowly, her eyes bent on the ground, and, as she drew near, I saw that they were red, and I guessed that she had been weeping.

So I gave up all for lost, and my heart turned to water within me.
"I am sent to bid you come in," she said gravely.
"What has passed ?" I cried.

"For the saints' sake, tell me all!" "This has passed, that I have seen such a lady as I never dreamed I should see, and she has made me weep--foolish that I am!" "Why, what did she?
Did she speak unkindly then, to my kind nurse ?" For this I could in no manner have endured, nor have abased myself to love one that was unjust, how dear soever; and none could be dearer than Elliot.

Yet unjust she might have been; and this thought to me was the greatest torment.
"Speak unkind words?
Oh, I remember my foolish talk, how I said that she would never forgive me while the world stands.

Nay, while her father was with mine and with my mother, thanking them for what they did for you, she led me apart to devise with me, and I took her to my chamber, and there, with tears in her eyes, and in the sweetest manner, she prayed me to pardon her for that she had been mad for a moment; and so, looking meek as an angel, she awaited my word.