31/32 I ask it as a proof of your love. We will, I trust, have other opportunities. Let us trust, too, to time--let us trust to God--but I will do nothing wrong, and I feel that this would be unworthy of my mother's daughter." "Well," replied the stranger, "I shall obey you as a proof of my love for you; but will you not allow me to write to you ?--will you not give me your address ?" "No," she returned; "and I enjoin you, as you hope, that we shall ever be happy, not to attempt to trace me. I ask this from you as a man of honor. Of course it may or perhaps it will be discovered that we travelled in the same coach. |