If I could only believe she loves me." "Put it to the proof, if you don't believe me." "I will.

Tell her I'd much rather stay all night, and catch a glimpse of her now and then; but yet, tell her I'll go home, if she will promise me not to dance with that Coventry again." "There is a condition!" said Jael.
"It is a fair one," said Henry, doggedly, "and I won't go from it." Jael looked at him, and saw it was no use arguing the matter.

So she went in to the house with his ultimatum.
She soon returned, and told him that Miss Grace, instead of being angry, as she expected, had smiled and looked pleased, and promised not to dance with Mr.Coventry nor any body else any more that night, "if he would go straight home and consult his beautiful mother." "Those were her words," said the loyal Dence.

"She did say them twice over to make sure." "God bless her!" cried Henry, warmly; "and bless you too, my best friend.

I'll go this moment." He cast a long, lingering look at the window, and went slowly down the street.
When he got home, his mother was still up and secretly anxious.
He sat down beside her, and told her where he had been and how it had all ended.