You are leaving your home to-night, and you are as free as air to choose.

Will you come ?" "Of course," he began again, in a different tone, as she still kept silent, "it may be that I have misunderstood.

I thought that you had learnt to care for me.

But if you dislike me--" "Do not say that," she replied, turning a deeply wounded face towards him.
"It is not that--do not think so.

You have been kind and good to me, and I--I shall never forget you.