Good-Bye Arthur Fletcher received his brother's teaching as true, and took his brother's advice in good part;--so that, before the morning following, he had resolved that however deep the wound might be, he would so live before the world, that the world should not see his wound.

What people already knew they must know,--but they should learn nothing further either by words or signs from him.

He would, as he had said to his brother, "have it out with Emily"; and then, if she told him plainly that she loved the man, he would bid her adieu, simply expressing regret that their course for life should be divided.

He was confident that she would tell him the entire truth.
She would be restrained neither by false modesty, nor by any assumed unwillingness to discuss her own affairs with a friend so true to her as he had been.

He knew her well enough to be sure that she recognised the value of his love though she could not bring herself to accept it.