I want to speak with you.

Will you come ?" Thus whispered the maker of this music of the senses, who directed the charades, but who was also directing the course of another life than his own.
"Yes, if I can," was Zoe's whispered reply, and the words shook as she said them; for she felt that their meeting in the beech-trees by the flume would be of consequence beyond imagination.
Judge Carcasson had always said that Zoe had judgment beyond her years; M.Fille had remarked often that she had both prudence and shrewdness as well as a sympathetic spirit; but M.Fille's little whispering sister, who could never be tempted away from her home to any house, to whom the market and the church were like pilgrimages to distant wilds, had said to her brother: "Wait, Armand--wait till Zoe is waked, and then prudence and wisdom will be but accident.

If all goes well, you will see prudence and wisdom; but if it does not, you will see--ah, but just Zoe!" The now alert Jean Jacques had seen the whispering of the two, though he did not know what had been said.

It was, however, something secret, and if it was secret, then it was--yes, it was love; and love between his daughter and that waif of the world--the world of the stage--in which men and women were only grown-up children, and bad grown-up children at that--it was not to be endured.

One thing was sure, the man should come to the Manor Cartier no more.