Now I can lay open to you all the innermost loopholes of my heart--can tell you all my weaknesses----" "Be still, be still now," said the Judge, with a bright and affectionate look, and laying his hand on her mouth.

"I have more failings than you; but I am awake now.

Weep not, Elise; let me kiss away your tears! Do you not feel, as I do now, that all is right?
Do we not believe in the Eternal Good, and do we not believe in each other?
Let us forgive and forget, and have peace together.

Hereafter, when the error of this time has in some measure passed from our remembrance, we will talk it over, and wonder how it ever came between us.

Now, all is so bright between us, and we both of us see our way clearly.