"I did you a wrong, and your mother a wrong, years ago.

I wonder at myself now, but you don't know the temptation.

You will never know how you looked to me that night." Cynthia's voice took on a tone of ineffable tenderness and yearning.
Ellen saw again the old expression in her face; suddenly she looked as before, young and beautiful, and full of a boundless attraction.
The girl's heart fairly leaped towards her with an impulse of affection.

She could in that minute have fallen at her feet, have followed her to the end of the world.

A great love and admiration which had gotten its full growth in a second under the magic of a look and a tone shook her from head to foot.