I think you a strangely lovely and strangely interesting person.

From the first moment I saw you you appealed to me.

I felt that you needed something--love and sympathy, perhaps.

The fact that it's been a sort of chance--our meeting--makes it all the sweeter to me.' Again Helen was silent for a moment, and again Althea, sitting with downcast eyes, knew that, though touched, she was uncomfortable.

'You are too nice and kind for words,' she then said.