But if papa says that you are not to come there, of course I cannot ask you to do so." "But I may see you here ?" "Mr.Lopez, I will not be asked some questions.

I will not indeed." "You know why I ask them.

You know that to me you are more than all the world." She stood still for a moment after hearing this, and then without any reply walked away into the other room.

She felt half ashamed of herself in that she had not rebuked him for speaking to her in that fashion after his interview with her father, and yet his words had filled her heart with delight.

He had never before plainly declared his love to her,--though she had been driven by her father's questions to declare her own love to herself.