"My only desire is to help you.
Tell me everything that is in your mind." She leaned forward quickly.

"You--you are most kind--" she began.

Then again she halted.
But he took no notice of her embarrassment.
"Why have you never come before ?" he asked.

"Had you no doubts to be set at rest ?" He spoke so quietly that her nervousness forsook her, and with a swift impulse she glanced up at him.
"I--I think I was afraid," she said, candidly.

"You see, I am not exactly one of the others--" "You did not quite believe that the One you had waited for had really come ?" His voice was low and tinged with some inscrutable meaning.
"Oh no! No; it was not that.