And then he can thank God for His goodness that when He might have given us Angels He did give us women! Of one thing, despite the seeming of facts, he was sure: Stephen did not love Leonard.

Every fibre of his being revolted at the thought.

She of so high a nature; he of so low.

She so noble; he so mean.

Bah! the belief was impossible.
Impossible! Herein was the manifestation of his ignorance; anything is possible where love is concerned! It was characteristic of the man that in his mind he had abandoned, for the present at all events, his own pain.