At any rate, I must wait for that." At last, when the summer was over, and the harvest all gathered in, the days were once more shortening for the fall, Ranald drove Lisette one day to the manse, and went straight to the minister's wife and opened up his mind to her.
"I cannot keep my promise to my father, Mrs.Murray," he said, going at once to the heart of his trouble.

"I cannot keep the anger out of my heart.

I cannot forgive the man that killed my father.

I will be waking at night with the very joy of feeling my fingers on his throat, and I feel myself longing for the day when I will meet him face to face and nothing between us.

But," he added, "I promised my father, and I must keep my word, and that is what I cannot do, for the feeling of forgiveness is not here," smiting his breast.