I will not go back or take the old name unless,--unless you tell me I must, Shirley!" There was an instant in which they both faced the westering sun.

He looked down suddenly and the deep feeling in his heart went to his lips.
"It was that way,--you were just like that when I saw you first, Shirley, with the dreams in your eyes." He caught her hand and kissed it,--bending very low indeed.

Suddenly, as he stood erect, her arms were about his neck and her cheek with its warmth and color lay against his face.
"I do not know,"-- and he scarcely heard the whispered words,--"I do not know Frederick Augustus von Stroebel,--but I love--John Armitage," she said.
Then back across the meadow, through the rose-aisled ways of the quiet garden, they went hand in hand together and answered the Baron's question.
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