Is it not so ?" "Certainly it is so.

Certainly I have." "I have thought much, since, of what I then wrote, very much,--very much, indeed; and I have learned to feel sure that we had better--" "Stop, Alice; stop a moment, love.

Do not speak hurriedly.

Shall I tell you what I learned from your letter ?" "Yes; tell me, if you think it better that you should do so." "Perhaps it may be better.

I learned, love, that something had been said or done during your journey,--or perhaps only something thought, that had made you melancholy, and filled your mind for a while with those unsubstantial and indefinable regrets for the past which we are all apt to feel at certain moments of our life.