I shall keep you in mind for some future occasion.

I just wished to learn if you would accept such an engagement.

Good-by.

Thanks--so much--for your flowers." She was upon the point of turning away, when a low cry from the nearby porch startled them both.

Turning, they saw the woman with the disfigured face, standing in the doorway; an expression of mingled wonder, love, and supplication upon her hideously marred features.