That you've lost nothing but a dangerous illusion; that you have been honorable with him, and all the wrong and the shame are upon him.

You must feel it, for it is true." Adelaide sighed.

"I wish I were strong enough to feel it with my friends jeering at me, as I can feel it now, Dory." He moved nearer the hammock in which she was sitting.

"Del," he said, "shall we become engaged, with the condition that we'll not marry unless we both wish to, when the time comes ?" "But you're doing this only to help me--to help me in a weakness I ought to be ashamed of." "Not altogether," he replied.

"You on your part give me a chance to win you.