Oh, let us go!" Too late! Kate and her companion had reached the end of the tamarack walk, and were returning.

As they drew near, she was speaking; again the two listeners in the darkness heard her words.
"Don't despair," she said earnestly.

"Oh, my darling, never despair! Come what will, I shall always love you--always trust you--always--" They passed out of hearing again--out of the dark into the lighted end of the walk, and did not return.
Reginald and Rose waited for a quarter of an hour, but they had disappeared as suddenly as they had appeared.
"Take me in," reiterated Rose, shivering.

"I am nearly frozen." He turned with her up the walk, never speaking a word, very pale in the light of the stars.

No one was visible as they left the walk; all around the house and grounds was hushed and still.