much to see you but i cannot wait any longer came to beg you not to execute the threats you have repeated to me do not i you mrs let any one know i ran away from home it would ruin me a him and break my heart i will do anything for you if you will be so kind to me in the name of our common womanhood do not i you make a scandal of me � yours e knight turned his head wearily towards the house the ground rose rapidly on the in which he stood raising it almost to a level with the first floor the s dressing room a c in this direction and it was lighted b x wo w p of blue eyes a position that from knight s standing place his sight passed through both windows and the room ei was there she was pausing between the two windows looking at her figure in the glass she regarded herself long and attentively in front turned flung back her head and observed the reflection over her shoulder nobody can as to her object or fancy she may have done the deed in the very abstraction of deep sadness she may have been moaning from the bottom of her heart how unhappy am i but the impression produced on knight was not a good one he dropped his eyes the dead woman s letter had a virtue in the accident of its juncture far beyond any it exhibited circumstance lent to evil words a ring of pitiless justice echoing from the grave knight could not endure their possession he tore the letter into ments he heard a brushing among the bushes behind and turning his head he saw following him the fair girl looked in his face with a wistful smile of hope too hopeful to the firmly established dread beneath it his severe words of the previous night still sat heavy upon her i saw you ft om my window harry she said the dew will make your feet wet he observed as one deaf i don t mind it there is danger in getting wet feet yes harry what is the matter o nothing shall i resume the serious conversation i had with you last night no perhaps not perhaps i had better not o i cannot tell i how wretched all is ah i wish you were your own dear self again and had kissed me when i came up why didn t you ask me for one why don t you now too free in manner by half he heard murmur the voice within him it was that hateful v t a pair of blue eyes on o those words last night was a black night for me kiss � i hate that word don t talk of kissing for god s sake i should think you might with advantage have shown tact enough to keep back that word kiss considering whose you have accepted she became very pale and a rigid and desolate look took possession of her face that face was so delicate and tender in appearance now that one could fancy the pressure of a finger upon it would cause a livid spot knight walked on and with him silent and he opened a gate and they entered a path across a field perhaps i intrude upon you she said as he closed the gate shall i go away no listen to me knight s voice was low and unequal i have been honest with you will you be so with me if any � strange � connection has existed between yourself and a of mine tell it now it is better that i know it now even though the knowledge should part us than that i should discover it in time to come and suspicions have been awakened in me i think i will not say how because i despise the means a discovery of any mystery of your past would our lives knight waited with a slow manner of calmness his eyes were sad and imperative they went farther along the path will you forgive me if i tell all she exclaimed i can t promise so much depends upon what you have to tell could not endure the silence which followed are you not going to love me she burst out harry harry love me and speak as usual do i you harry are you going to act fairly by me said knight with rising anger or are you not what have i done to you that i should be put off like this be caught l ke v in a everything intended to ie why is it that s what ow a fair of blue eyes in their agitation they had left the path and were wandering among the wet and without knowing or it what have done she faltered with the utmost distress in her eyes what how can you ask what when you know so well you know that i have been kept in ignorance of something to you which had i known of it might have altered all my conduct and yet you say what she drooped visibly and made no answer not that i believe in malicious letter writers and not i i don t know whether i do or don t upon my soul i can t tell i know this a religion was building itself upon you in my heart i looked into your eyes and thought i saw there truth and innocence as pure and perfect as ever embodied by god in the flesh of a woman perfect truth is too much to expect but ordinary truth i will have or nothing at all just say then is the matter you keep back of the importance or is it not i don t understand all your meaning if i have hidden anything from you it has 