He stood quiet in the ditch after he had broken from the chaise." "Alice, did you love him ?" "My husband!" A door near us opened, and Ben Somers and young Parker looked in.

They were the watchers.

Parker went back when he saw me; but Ben came in.
He knelt down by me, put his arm around me, and said, "Poor girl!" Alice raised her tear-stained face, looking at me curiously, when he said this.

She took hold of my streaming hair and pulled my head round.

"Did _you_ love him ?" Ben rose quickly and went to the window.
"Alice!" I whispered, "you may or you may not forgive me, but I was strangely bound to him.