They sat with their young heads together and their warm cheeks touching, and told as much of their life's stories to each other as they could think of at the moment.

To Reine the great discovery had come gradually, and so the present hour was not so strange as it was to Hetty.

For Hetty the world seemed to have got suddenly under a spell of enchantment.

She could not believe in herself as Helen Gaythorne--could not get accustomed to her new vision of life.
"And I shall not need to be a governess.

And perhaps I may be an artist if I like." "You will not need to be either.