IF SHE WAS DROWNED, HOW CAN SHE BE HETTY?
A few friends had joined the Wavertree family circle that evening, and Reine had no further opportunity of speaking about Hetty.

She was absent and thoughtful; but wakened up when asked to sing, and sang a thrilling little love song with such power and sweetness as went to everybody's heart.

She was thinking as she sang of Hetty's face, and it was her strange yearning for Hetty's love that inspired her to sing as she did.
That night she could not sleep.

Her mother's eyes, with the loving look she remembered so well, were gazing at her from all the corners of the room.

Her mind went back over the recollections of her childhood; and her father's voice and her mother's smiles were with her as though she had only said good-night to both parents an hour ago.