"I hope nothing is wrong with our little Zoe ?" "It is of her--and myself I want to speak.

I feel impelled to make a confession to you, mother dear, that I would not willingly to any one else.

Perhaps you have suspected," he added, coloring with mortification, "that all was not right between us when I left yesterday.

She would not have fretted so over my mere absence of a few days, but I had scolded and threatened her the night before, and went away without any reconciliation or even a good-by.

In fact, she was asleep when I left the rooms, and knew nothing of my going." "O Edward!" exclaimed his listener in a low, pained tone.
"I am bitterly ashamed of my conduct, mother," he said with emotion, "but we have made it up and are both very happy again in each other's love.