What should I have done then, when I felt I was consecrated to you! As soon as you came back to life, I was as sure as if she had told me that I was to be to you what she could not be, but that could only be if you would let me.

Oh, how I wanted to tell you that morning, when you felt so terribly strange among us, who I was, but dared not open my lips about that, or let father or mother----" "That must have been what you would not let your father tell me!" I exclaimed, referring to the conversation I had overheard as I came out of my trance.
"Of course it was," Edith laughed.

"Did you only just guess that?
Father being only a man, thought that it would make you feel among friends to tell you who we were.

He did not think of me at all.

But mother knew what I meant, and so I had my way.