"If I could only be with him," she thought, and she longed to be able to send him an answer; but she had never learnt properly how to write or to compose a letter.
With some difficulty, however, and after several ineffectual attempts, she managed to put two lines together which she remembered from the Catechism:-- "To my lover Salve Kristiansen-- "You shall put your trust in God, and after Him, in me before all others, who careth for you in all things, and have faith in me.

That is the truth from your ever-unforgetting "ELIZABETH RAKLEV.
And in the spring, "ELIZABETH KRISTIANSEN." She folded the letter, and got one of Garvloit's sons to write the address; but, that it might be certain to go, she went with it herself to the post-office.
Salve received it one day with great surprise.

He guessed from whom it came, and delayed opening it in the fear that it might contain a breaking off of their engagement occasioned by his own letter: he remembered that first morning in Amsterdam.

What was his joy, then, when he found what the contents actually were; he seemed to have the thing now in black-and-white.

He put the letter carefully back into his pocket-book every time after reading it, and for a while was quite another man.