"You'll have to see him in the parlor, Lois," her father said, looking at her over his paper, as Sally announced Mr.Forsythe.
"Oh, father!" she said.
"Nonsense," replied the rector impatiently, "you know him well enough to receive him alone.

I can't be interrupted.

Run along, child." "Will you come in, Helen, dear ?" she pleaded.
"Yes," Helen said, glancing at her with absent eyes; it was hard to leave the intricacies of a theological argument to think of a girl's lover.
"I'll come soon." But in a letter to John she forgot every one else, and when Lois went tremblingly out of the room both the rector and his niece lost themselves in their own interests.
"Good-evening, Miss Lois," Dick said, coming towards her with extended hand.
She could hardly hear her answer for her beating heart.
"I came to say good-by," he went on, his bright blue eyes fastened angrily upon her; but she did not see him.
"You go to-morrow ?" she faltered.
"Yes," he answered; "but I could not leave Ashurst without--one more look at the rectory." Lois did not speak.

Oh, why did not Helen come?
"A different scene this from that night after the dinner party," Dick thought, looking at her downcast eyes and trembling hands with cruel exultation in his face, "If I cared!" "How I have adored Ashurst!" he said slowly, wondering how far it would be safe to go.

"I have been very happy here.