Each day I think my love as great as it can be, but the next I find it still greater." "And I have felt angry with you to-day, for the first time since you told me of your love." Her tone was remorseful and pleading, as though she would crave forgiveness.
"Angry with me, my dearest?
In what can I have offended ?" he asked in sorrowful surprise.
"Papa was saying that he had sometimes been too hard with me, and had fully deserved the epithet you once bestowed upon him in your righteous indignation.

It was when I fell from the piano-stool; do you remember ?" "Ah, yes, I can never forget it.

And I called him a brute.

But you will forgive what occurred so long ago?
and in a moment of anger aroused by my great love for you ?" "Forgive you, my husband?
ah, it is I who should crave forgiveness, and I do, though it was a momentary feeling; and now I love you all the better for the great loving heart that prompted the exclamation." "We will exchange forgiveness," he whispered, folding her closer to his heart..