16/55 I had thought of going to her, but not of telling her the whole truth. It did not seem as though I could, until I had heard myself tell it to you. It will be hard, but it seems possible, and it will save her--and then--" His face changed again, as he broke off in the sentence, and his melancholy eyes turned slowly to his friend. I wonder," he continued, after a short pause, "that you should want such a man as I am in your priest's house there." "Oh! I am glad of a little society when I can get it, and I have much to show you which might interest you. I have worked perpetually for many years, since we used to talk about my history of the Church." He checked himself. |