"To make you feel better ?" "Well," he replied frankly, wonderfully--"it will.

But here," he added, "is your hansom." He had signalled--the cab was charging.

She put out no hand for their separation, but she prepared to get in.

Before she did so, however, she said what had been gathering while she waited.

"Well, I would marry, I think, to have something from you in all freedom.".