You shall listen to what I have to say, though it is for the last time," he urged stubbornly.

"You think ill of me.

Are you sure you are not pharisaical ?" "I am honest enough to say that which hurts me in the saying.

I do not forget that to believe thee what I think is to take all truth from what thee said to me last year, and again this spring when the tulips first came and there was good news from Egypt." "I said," he rejoined boldly, "that I was happier with you than with any one else alive.

I said that what you thought of me meant more to me than what any one else in the world thought; and that I say now, and will always say it." The old look of pity came into her face.