Your last letter hurt me.

I don't know just how.

But I came West to see you--to tell you this--and to ask you....

Do you want this ring back ?" "Certainly not," he replied, forcibly, with a dark flush spreading over his face.
"Then--you love me ?" she whispered.
"Yes--I love you," he returned, deliberately.

"And in spite of all you say--very probably more than you love me....