He would not have wished it wasted on one who must have done you cruel wrong, since he has lived so many days beside you without showing his interest in you or even acknowledging your relationship." "There were reasons," she protested, gently withdrawing herself, but holding me for a minute to her side.

"He has had great fortune--is a man of importance now--we did not wish to interfere with his career.

It was only after the money was found that we felt he should come.

We should not have asked him to take back his old name, we should simply have given him what he thought best to take and been so happy and proud to see him.

He is so handsome and fortunate that we should not have begrudged it, if he had taken it all.