You will be two happy and powerful people! His power will be doubled by happiness; I have always known that." Marcella was seized with shyness, looked away, and did not know what to answer.

At last she said abruptly--her head still turned to the woods on her left-- "Are you sure he is going to be happy ?" "Shall I produce his letter to me ?" he said, bantering--"or letters?
For I knew a great deal about you before October 5" (their engagement-day), "and suspected what was going to happen long before Aldous did.

No; after all, no! Those letters are my last bit of the old friendship.

But the new began that same day," he hastened to add, smiling: "It may be richer than the old; I don't know.

It depends on you." "I don't think--I am a very satisfactory friend," said Marcella, still awkward, and speaking with difficulty.
"Well, let me find out, won't you?
I don't think Aldous would call me exacting.