She herself loved her too well, and soon she was able to talk of her again to Theophil.

They had agreed that Isabel should not know what Jenny had seen that night of the recital.
For Jenny could not bear to think of the letters it would mean.

"Let that be our secret, dear," she said to Theophil; and thus, when Isabel wrote, she wrote back in her usual way.

Theophil and Isabel never wrote to each other.

It was no part of their love to deceive Jenny in letters.
Their love was vowed to silence and absence, and in Theophil's life it must be more and more of a starlit background.
So the weeks went by, and the marriage of Theophil and Jenny was now finally fixed for the 12th of February.