I cannot bear to have you out of my sight!" He drew her brown head down on his shoulder, and stroked her face softly.

"When I'm away from you, Helen, I seem only half alive." "And in three weeks I have to go to Ashurst," she said ruefully.

"It is too bad I couldn't have gone while you were at General Assembly, but it wouldn't have been right for us both to be away from the parsonage at once." "No.

Well, we have the three weeks yet.

Yes, I must send you away, and get at the reports.