He came down to Verdun Royal to bid us good-by, and I was in the grounds.
He had but half an hour to stay, and mamma sent him out to me," The color deepened in her face as she spoke, and the light shone in her splendid eyes--there was a kind of wild, restless passion in her words.
"I remember it all so well! There had been a heavy shower of rain in the early morning, that had cleared away, leaving the skies blue, the sunshine golden, while the rain-drops still glistened on the trees and the grass.

I love the sweet smell of the green leaves and the moist earth after rain.

I was there enjoying it when he came to say good-by to me--mamma came with him.

'Philippa,' she said, 'Norman is going; he wants to say good-by to his little wife.' He always calls me his little wife.

I saw him look very grave.