Lean on me as if you trusted me." There was a slight frown on her brow, as he began his speech, but it soon passed, and she said, softly, as she still lingered, "Well, I'm not an athlete.

I should value more a man's strong arm than strength of my own." "You know that the arm of one man is ever at your service." "'Ever' implies more patience than any man possesses." "I should think so; yet you will find me reasonably patient." "Everything is a matter of reason with men." "Our reason assures us that certain things are a matter of the heart with women.

Therefore we hope." "Men are much too exacting.

They reason a thing out and make up their minds.

If they base any hopes on women's hearts, they should remember what unreasoning organs they are--full of hesitations, doubts, absurd fears, and more absurd confidence at times.