And so you've been meetin' and have come to believe--you have, anyway--that 'twas somethin' more than likin'.

But you neither of you have stopped to think that a marriage between you two was as impossible as anything could be.
And, besides, there's another man.

A man she's known all her life and loved and respected--" "Stop, Mrs.Coffin! stop this wicked nonsense.

I won't hear it." "John, Grace Van Horne is goin' to marry Cap'n Nat Hammond.

There! that's the livin' truth." In his absolute confidence and faith he had again started for the door.
Now he wheeled and stared at her.