I love you, indeed I love you, and I want no other woman to be my wife." Jenny's face brightened for a moment; they were good words, and they sounded real.

But then that embrace, how real that was; nothing again could ever be so real as that! "Ah, Theophil dear; but you stood as though you loved her so; your arms were so tender, it was just as though they said 'wife.' You are deceiving yourself, dear, believe me, you are.

God knows how I love you; I have nothing in the world but you, and if...if..." "Jenny, try and believe; let me show you how I can love you.

I seem never to have shown you before.

Let us begin our love over again from to-night.