But what you are to believe and always understand is that our friendship must endure.

Will you believe it ?" "Y-yes--" She buried her face in her handkerchief and sat very still for a long time.

He had risen and walked to the farther end of the veranda; and for a minute he stood there, his narrowed eyes following the sky flight of the white gulls off Wonder Head.
When at length he returned to her she was sitting low in the swing, both arms extended along the back of the seat.

Evidently she had been waiting for him; and her face was very grave and sorrowful.
"I want to ask you something," she said--"merely to prove that you are a little bit illogical.

May I ?" He nodded, smiling.
"Could you and I care for each other more than we now do, if we were married ?" "I think so," he said.
"Why ?" she demanded, astonished.