And so you see everything is changed as well as my name." "Everything is not changed," said Lord Chiltern, getting up from his seat.

"I am not changed,--at least not in this, that as I loved you better than any being in the world,--better even than Laura there,--so do I love you now infinitely the best of all.

Do not look so surprised at me.

You knew it before as well as you do now;--and Laura knows it.

There is no secret to be kept in the matter among us three." "But, Lord Chiltern,--" said Miss Effingham, rising also to her feet, and then pausing, not knowing how to answer him.