"It is a hard thing to do," he then said,--not looking at her, but looking at the gravel on which he stood.

"It is a hard thing to do, but I will determine to think of it no further.

I believe a man may be as happy single as he may married,--almost." "Perhaps more so," said Bell.

Then the doctor left her, and Bell, as I have said before, made up her mind with great firmness that she was not in love with him.

I may certainly say that there was nothing in the world as to which she was so certain as she was of this.
And now, in these days, Dr Crofts did not come over to Allington very often.