If so, she would hear it, and would then have an opportunity of telling him that her heart had been given entirely to another.

She knew all that she owed to him.
After a fashion she did love him.

He was entitled to all kindest consideration from her hands.

But he should be told the truth.
As she entered the shrubbery he came out to meet her, giving her his hand with a frank, easy air and a pleasant smile.

His smile was as bright as the ripple of the sea, and his eye would then gleam, and the slightest sparkle of his white teeth would be seen between his lips, and the dimple of his chin would show itself deeper than at other times.