The secret has always rankled in my pride.

I would much rather defy opinion than fly before it.
But I know that you would mind.

However, there was another reason." "What ?" She hesitated a little and colored, even laughed a little, embarrassed laugh which was foreign to her.

"Well, Lyman," said she, finally, "one reason why I did not speak was that I see my way clear to making up to that child and her parents for any wrong which I may have done them by causing them a few hours' anxiety.

When she has finished the high-school I mean to send her to college.".